The usefulness of a preoperative compact imager, a hand-held γ-camera for breast cancer sentinel node biopsy: Final results of a prospective double-blind, clinical study

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1346-1353

  Kerrou, Khaldoun ^a   Pitre, Stéphanie ^b   Coutant, Charles ^a   Rouzier, Roman ^a   Ancel, Pierre Yves ^a,c   Lebeaux, Cécile ^a,c   Huchet, Virginie ^a   Montravers, Françoise ^a   Pascal, Odile ^a   Alix Duval, Marie ^b,d   Lefebvre, Françoise ^b   Menard, Laurent ^b   Uzan, Serge ^a   Charon, Yves ^b   Barranger, Emmanuel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Breast; Hand held gamma camera; Instrumentation; Lymphoscintigraphy; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

COLLOID TC 99M; NANOCIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052618816     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.090464     Document Type: Article

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