43. Radioisotope diagnostics in breast and gynecologic tumors. The significance of sentinel lymph node scintigraphy.
- Scintimammography
- 99mTc-MIBI
- Sentinel lymph node scintigraphy
- Radiopharmaceutical injected close to tumor
- It will travel with the same lymph vessels as the tumor cells, thereby reaching sentinel lymph nodes
- 99mTc-HSA (human serum albumin)
- Advantage: Avoids unnecessary lymph node dissections
- Indications
- Early tumor stage
- Radiopharmaceutical injected close to tumor