Laparoscopic cholecystectomy using the PINPOINT® Endoscopic Fluorescence Imaging System with intraoperative fluorescent imaging for acute cholecystitis: A case report

We report on a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) for acute cholecystitis (AC) using the bright field/full-color fluorescence laparoscope system PINPOINT® (Novadaq, Mississauga, ON, Canada). The patient was an 85-year-old man who was diagnosed with moderate AC. Indocyanine green (ICG) was administered just before surgery, and we used only PINPOINT® to perform the LC. The advantage of this procedure is that it can be performed while viewing ICG...