Radioguided-surgery of early breast lesions.
Anticancer Res
; 21(3C): 2091-7, 2001.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Radioguided-surgery has been recently proposed in patients with clinically occult breast lesions. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of correctly locating and eradicating, by a single intralesional injection of a radiotracer, any breast lesion and, in the case of malignancy, to perform simultaneous sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy procedure. PATIENTS ANDMETHODS:
Sixty-three women with early breast lesions were enrolled 42 were invasive carcinomas, 16 in situ ductal carcinomas (DCIS) and 5 fibroadenomas.RESULTS:
Scintigraphic images clearly identified the lesions in all patients while SLN/s were evident in 88% of them. At surgery all the breast lesions were easily radiolocalized and eradicated with minimum surgical trauma and, for those patients with invasive carcinomas, the SLN technique was performed in 86% of them. No skip metastases were found.CONCLUSION:
A single intralesional administration of radiotracer is an easy and reliable procedure to simultaneously locate and remove both the non-palpable breast lesion and the SLN when primary malignancy was intraoperatively confirmed.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias de la Mama
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Agregado de Albúmina Marcado con Tecnecio Tc 99m
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Radiofármacos
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Anticancer Res
Año:
2001
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia