A pilot study of dual-isotope lymphoscintigraphy for breast sentinel node biopsy comparing intradermal and intraparenchymal injection

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1041-1047

  Fowler, J C ^a,b   Solanki, C K ^a   Guenther, I ^a   Barber, R ^a   Miller, F ^a   Bobrow, L ^a   Ravichandran, D ^b   Lawrence, D ^b   Ballinger, J R ^a   Douglas Jones, A ^c   Purushotham, A D ^a   Peters, A M ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LUTON AND DUNSTABLE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Injection plane; Lymphoscintigraphy; Sentinel

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INDIUM 111 HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M HUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOIMMUNODETECTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 69949095749     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Deckers P.J. Axillary dissection in breast cancer: when, why, how much, and for how long? - another operation soon to be extinct?. J Surg Oncol 48 (1991) 217-219
2. Reintgen D.S., Cruse C.W., Wells K., et al. The orderly progression of melanoma nodal metastases. Ann Surg 220 (1994) 759-767
3. Statius Muller M.G., Borgstein P.H., Pijpers R., et al. Reliability of the sentinel node procedure in melanoma patients: analysis of failures after long-term follow-up. Ann Surg Oncol 7 (2000) 461-468
4. Tanis P.J., Nieweg O.E., Valdes Olmos R.A., et al. Anatomy and physiology of lymphatic drainage of the breast from the perspective of sentinel node biopsy. J Am Coll Surg 192 (2001) 399-409
5. De Cicco C., Cremonesi M., Luini A., et al. Lymphoscintigraphy and radioguided biopsy of the sentinel axillary node in breast cancer. J Nucl Med 39 (1998) 2080-2084
6. Linehan D.C., Hill A.D., Akhurst T., et al. Intradermal radiocolloid and intraparenchymal blue dye injection optimise sentinel node identification in breast cancer patients. Ann Surg Oncol 6 (1999) 450-454
7. Fleming F.J., Hill A.D., and Kavanagh D. Intradermal radioisotope injection optimises sentinel lymph node identification in breast cancer. Eur J Surg Oncol 29 (2003) 835-838
8. De Cicco C., Trifiro G., and Intra M. Optimised nuclear medicine method for tumour marking at sentinel node detection in occult primary breast lesions. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 31 (2004) 349-354
9. Pelosi E., Baiocco A., Ala A., et al. Lymphatic mapping in early stage breast cancer: comparison between periareolar and subdermal injection. Nucl Med Commun 24 (2003) 519-523
10. Pelosi E., Bello M., Giors M., et al. Sentinel lymph node detection in patients with early-stage breast cancer: comparison of periareolar and subdermal/peritumoural injection techniques. J Nucl Med 45 (2004) 220-225
11. Borgstein P.J., Meijer S., Pijpers R.J., et al. Functional lymphatic anatomy for sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer: echoes from the past and the periareolar blue method. Ann Surg 232 (2000) 81-89
12. Shimazu K., Tamaki Y., Taguchi T., et al. Comparision between periareolar and peritumoural injection of radiotracer for sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer. Surgery 131 (2002) 277-286
13. Reitsamer R., Peintinger F., and Rettenbacher L. Subareolar subcutaneous injection of blue dye versus peritumoural injection of technetium-labeled human albumin to identify sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. World J Surg 27 (2003) 1291-1294
14. Roumen R.M., Geuskens L.M., and Valkenburg J.G. In search of the true sentinel node by different injection techniques in breast cancer patients. Eur J Surg Oncol 25 (1999) 347-351
15. Maza S., Valencia R., Geworski L., et al. Peritumoural versus subareolar administration of technetium-99m nanocolloid for sentinel lymph node detection in breast cancer: preliminary results of a prospective intra-individual comparative study. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 30 (2003) 651-656
16. Vijayakumar V., Boerner P.S., Jani A., et al. A critical review of variables affecting the accuracy and false-negative rate of sentinel node biopsy procedures in early breast cancer. Nucl Med Commun 26 (2005) 395-405
17. Mariani G., Moresco L., Viale G., et al. Radioguided sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer. J Nucl Med 42 (2001) 1198-1215
18. 111In] for dual isotope scanning. Appl Radiat Isot 59 (2003) 337-342
19. 99mTc. Acta Oncol 46 (2007) 105-110
20. 99mTc-HIG as a lymphoscintigraphic agent in rabbits. Nucl Med Commun 19 (1998) 665-670
21. Svensson W., Glass D.N., Bradley D., et al. Measurement of lymphatic function with Tc-99m labeled polyclonal immunoglobulin. Eur J Nucl Med 26 (1999) 504-510
22. Fowler J.C., Solanki C.K., Barber R.W., et al. Measurement of the extraction fractions of nanocolloid and polyclonal immunoglobulin by axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer. Nucl Med Commun 25 (2004) 935-940
23. Pain S.J., Barber R.W., Ballinger J.R., et al. Side-to-side symmetry of radioprotein transfer from tissue space to systemic vasculature following subcutaneous injection in normal subjects and patients with breast cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 30 (2003) 657-661
24. Pain S.J., Barber R.W., Ballinger J.R., et al. Transport of radiolabeled immunoglobulin injected into the web spaces of the hands of normal subjects and patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema. J Vasc Res 41 (2004) 183-192
25. Ellis I.O., Pinder S.E., and Bobrow L. Guidelines for pathology reporting in breast cancer screening (January 2005), NHS Breast Screening Programme Publications No 58
26. Turner R.R., Ollila D.W., Stern S., et al. Optimal histopathologic examination of the sentinel lymph node for breast carcinoma staging. Am J Surg Pathol 23 (1999) 263-267
27. McMasters K.M., Wong S.K., Martin R.C., et al. Dermal injection of radioactive colloid is superior to peritumoural injection for breast cancer sentinel node biopsy: results of a multiinstitutional study. Ann Surg 233 (2001) 676-687
28. MacMillan R.D., Barbera D., Hadjuminas D.J., et al. Sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer may have little to offer four-node-samplers: results of a prospective comparison study. Eur J Cancer 37 (2001) 1076-1080
29. 198. Acta Radiol 43 (1955) 52-64
30. Pecking A.P., Gougeon-Bertrand F.J., Lokiec F.M., et al. Radioimmunolympho-scintigraphy in the preoperative staging of primary breast cancer: a pilot study using a human monoclonal antibody. Int J Oncol 9 (1996) 659-667