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About
Caterina Foppa is a leading surgical researcher whose work centers on advancing minimally invasive techniques for gastrointestinal cancers, with a particular focus on robotic surgery and fluorescence-guided imaging. Her major contributions include demonstrating the clinical value of indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescent lymphography during robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer, a study that has garnered 79 citations and helped establish this technique as a tool for improving lymph node dissection accuracy. She has also been instrumental in comparing robotic versus laparoscopic approaches, showing through her 2016 study (62 citations) that robotic distal gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy offers advantages in complex procedures. Her work extends to rectal cancer, where she investigated the quality of total mesorectal excision and the depth of circumferential resection margins in early robotic cases (55 citations). Notably, Foppa led the MIRCAST study (42 citations), a multicenter effort examining anastomotic techniques in right colectomy, and contributed to the landmark IntAct trial (29 citations), which assessed ICG fluorescence angiography for preventing anastomotic leaks in rectal cancer surgery. Her pioneering pilot studies on near-infrared fluorescence imaging for lymph node mapping and immersive reality for surgical training further underscore her impact, with over 300 total citations reflecting her influence on modern surgical oncology.
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