ArticleAsia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology2018
The Usefulness of SPECT/CT in Sentinel Node Mapping of Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients Showing Negative or Equivocal Findings on Planar Scintigraphy.
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- Preoperative planar lymphoscintigraphy allows for sentinel lymph node detection in 51 dogs improving staging accuracy: Feasibility and pitfalls.Veterinary radiology & ultrasound : the official journal of the American College of Veterinary Radiology and the International Veterinary Radiology Association · 2021Observational
- Quantitative improvement of lymph nodes visualization of breast cancer usingRadiation and environmental biophysics · 2021Article
- Ultrasonographic Algorithm for the Assessment of Sentinel Lymph Nodes That Drain the Mammary Carcinomas in Female Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Evaluation of camera-based freehand SPECT in preoperative sentinel lymph node mapping for melanoma patients.EJNMMI research · 2020Article
- 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT/CT and 18F-FDG-PET/CT have similar performance but different imaging patterns in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.Nuclear medicine communications · 2020Article
- Comparison between sentinel lymph node hybrid scintigraphy and blue dye technique in breast cancer patients: An institutional experience.World journal of nuclear medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThis study sought to determine the diagnostic yield of SPECT/CT in localizing axillary sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in early breast cancer patients where planar scintigraphy (PS) was equivocal or negative.
methodsProspective analysis of early stage breast cancer patients with non-palpable axillary nodes undergoing SLN localization prior to nodal sampling for axillary staging. PS findings were categorized as: Category A: non-visualization of SLN; Category B: unusual uptake location; Category C: equivocal uptake / difficult interpretation. The K-coefficient of Cohen was used to evaluate the correlation between PS and SPECT/CT results. PS and SPECT/CT images were interpreted separately, and SLN identification on each of the modalities was correlated to BMI (Body mass index) and peroperative radio guided results.
resultsBetween April 2015 and January 2017, 1028 early breast cancer cases underwent sentinel lymphoscintigraphy. Of total, 134 (13%) patients underwent SPECT/CT in addition to PS. All were females with mean age of 48.15 years (range: 26-82 years). Right sided in 68, left in 64 and 2 with bilateral carcinoma. By TNM classification: 49 (37%) T
conclusionSPECT/CT has diagnostic yield and helps in precise SLN localization where planar imaging is negative or shows unusual site of uptake.
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