SPECT/CT for Preoperative Sentinel Node Localization

Overview

Journal J Surg Oncol

Specialties General Surgery
Oncology

Date 2009 Nov 20

PMID 19924723

Citations 27

Authors

Lenka Vermeeren

Iris M C van der Ploeg

Renato A Valdes Olmos

Willem Meinhardt

W Martin C Klop

Bin B R Kroon

Omgo E Nieweg

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Abstract

The value of SPECT/CT for detection and localization of sentinel nodes is reviewed. SPECT/CT depicts extra sentinel nodes and identifies non-nodal tracer accumulation. SPECT/CT is indicated in patients with complex lymphatic drainage as often present in patients with head, neck and scapular melanoma, breast cancer patients with extra-axillary sentinel nodes and patients with tumors draining to pelvic nodes. SPECT/CT also clarifies the drainage pattern of inconclusive conventional images (non-visualization or unclear location of the nodes).

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