Results
We enrolled 18 patients (61% female, median age 69 years). With NIR, an extra 23 stations were harvested: 9 contained no lymph nodes, 12 contained nonmetastatic lymph nodes, and 2 contained metastatic lymph nodes. The most commonly visualized station with NIR were station 6 (8 patients) and 1 (4 patients). The total number of harvested nodes per patient was 32 (interquartile range [IQR] 26–41), with a median of 1 (IQR 0–1) additional lymph node after NIR. Overall, seven (39%) patients had a clinical benefit from NIR, of which two (11%) had one metastatic lymph node harvested with NIR.