Added value of intraoperative real-time imaging in searches for difficult-to-locate sentinel nodes

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1219-1225

  Vidal Sicart, Sergi ^a   Paredes, Pilar ^a   Zanón, Gabriel ^a   Pahisa, Jaume ^a   Martinez Román, Sergio ^a   Caparrós, Xavier ^a   Vilalta, Antoni ^a   Rull, Ramon ^a   Pons, Francesca ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lymphoscintigraphy; Portable gamma camera; Real time imaging; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM 153; IODINE 125; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MACROSALB TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM TC 99M NANOCOLLOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR PROBE; OPERATION DURATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME IMAGING; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77956201539     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.074880     Document Type: Article

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