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SPECT/CT for preoperative sentinel node localization |
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| Authors: | Lenka Vermeeren MD Iris M.C. van der Ploeg MD PhD Renato A. Valdés Olmos MD PhD Willem Meinhardt MD PhD W. Martin C. Klop MD PhD Bin B.R. Kroon MD PhD Omgo E. Nieweg MD PhD |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Resident in Surgery.;4. Nuclear Medicine Physician.;5. Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;6. Urologist.;7. Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;8. Head and Neck Surgeon.;9. Emeritus Professor of Surgery.;10. Surgeon. |
| 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). J. Surg. Oncol. 2010;101:184–190. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. |
| Keywords: | tomography emission‐computed single‐photon sentinel lymph node biopsy neoplasm staging melanoma breast neoplasms |