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Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer
BACKGROUND: Preoperative lymphoscintigraphy is one of the three methods of evaluating sentinel nodes in patients with breast cancer; however, it has been reported to have a high false negative rate. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We report here two cases where the preoperative lymphoscintigraphy was found to b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1156960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15927059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-31 |
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author | Pandey, Manoj Deo, Surya VS Maharajan, R |
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description | BACKGROUND: Preoperative lymphoscintigraphy is one of the three methods of evaluating sentinel nodes in patients with breast cancer; however, it has been reported to have a high false negative rate. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We report here two cases where the preoperative lymphoscintigraphy was found to be fallacious. A 44-year-old female with T2N0 breast cancer underwent preoperative lymphoscintigraphy with Tc(99 )sulfur colloid which failed to show any uptake in axilla or internal mammary chain. Intraoperative scintigraphy with blue dye and hand held gamma probe identified sentinel lymph node in axilla. Another patient with T2N0 lesion underwent preoperative lymphoscintigraphy which showed a sentinel lymph node in axilla and another in supraclevicular fossa. Intraoperative scintigraphy failed to show supraclevicular node however axillary node was correctly identified. CONCLUSION: These two cases further strengthen the need to carry out triple test in identification of sentinel lymph node in patients with breast cancer. It also demonstrates the fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy. |
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spelling | pubmed-11569602005-06-22 Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer Pandey, Manoj Deo, Surya VS Maharajan, R World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Preoperative lymphoscintigraphy is one of the three methods of evaluating sentinel nodes in patients with breast cancer; however, it has been reported to have a high false negative rate. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We report here two cases where the preoperative lymphoscintigraphy was found to be fallacious. A 44-year-old female with T2N0 breast cancer underwent preoperative lymphoscintigraphy with Tc(99 )sulfur colloid which failed to show any uptake in axilla or internal mammary chain. Intraoperative scintigraphy with blue dye and hand held gamma probe identified sentinel lymph node in axilla. Another patient with T2N0 lesion underwent preoperative lymphoscintigraphy which showed a sentinel lymph node in axilla and another in supraclevicular fossa. Intraoperative scintigraphy failed to show supraclevicular node however axillary node was correctly identified. CONCLUSION: These two cases further strengthen the need to carry out triple test in identification of sentinel lymph node in patients with breast cancer. It also demonstrates the fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy. BioMed Central 2005-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC1156960/ /pubmed/15927059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-31 Text en Copyright © 2005 Pandey et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Pandey, Manoj Deo, Surya VS Maharajan, R Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
title | Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
title_full | Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
title_fullStr | Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
title_short | Fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
title_sort | fallacies of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in detecting sentinel node in breast cancer |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1156960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15927059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-3-31 |
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