Immediate dynamic lymphoscintigraphy delivers no additional value to lymphoscintigraphy 3 hr after tracer injection in sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer patients
| Autor: | Mirjam Vrieling, M.H. Edwina Doting, Harald J. Hoekstra, Clara Lemstra, Lianne Rietman, Jakob de Vries, H.M. Annemiek Stiekema, Pieter L. Jager |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Adult medicine.medical_specialty Sentinel lymph node DRAINAGE PATTERNS MELANOMA Breast Neoplasms Injections Breast cancer Biopsy medicine Humans ROUTINE PREOPERATIVE LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY Radionuclide Imaging Lymph node DISSECTION Aged Neoplasm Staging Aged 80 and over SITES medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Melanoma imaging non-axillary General Medicine staging Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Dissection medicine.anatomical_structure Oncology Lymphatic Metastasis Axilla Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid Female Radiology Lymph Lymph Nodes business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Surgical Oncology, 95(6), 469-475. Wiley |
| ISSN: | 0022-4790 |
| Popis: | Objective: Immediate dynamic imaging enables accurate definition of sentinel lymph nodes, whereas imaging, 3 hr after tracer injection may lead to overestimation of the number of sentinel lymph nodes. A study was performed to define the value of lymphoscintigraphy immediately versus 3 hr after tracer injection in sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer management.Methods: In 165 sentinel lymph node biopsy procedures preoperative immediate and 3 hr post-injection lymphoscintigraphy was performed after intraparenchymal tracer administration.Results: Lymph node visualization occurred in 63 immediate procedures (38%) versus in 163 procedures 3 hr post-injection (99%). In 17 procedures (10%) in which immediate lymphoscintigraphy had visualized sentinel lymph nodes, additional nodes had been seen on 3 hr post-injection lymphoscintigraphy. In eight of these procedures (5%) all nodes were detected in the same draining lymph node basin. Non-axillary sentinel lymph nodes were identified by preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in 28 procedures (17%) and improved staging in three patients (5%).Conclusion: The only impact of immediate lymphoscintigraphy was the possible omission of removal of 1-2 sec-echelon nodes per patient in 5% of patients. We consider this yield too low to continue immediate lymphoscintigraphy in breast cancer patients. J. Surg. Oncol. 2007;95:469-475. (C) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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