Preclinical detection of metastatic melanoma.
We present a patient with melanoma in whom the performance of combined immunoscintigraphy and immunolymphoscintigraphy indicated the presence of metastatic disease 16 months before clinical manifestation. This approach may be useful in the early detection of metastatic disease and the patient presented is a lesson that cutaneous foci of uptake should not be dismissed as false-positive in the absence of clinical correlation.
University Department of Radiology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, United Kingdom.
O A
OA
Mojiminiyi
J R
JR
Stretch
B J
BJ
Shepstone
N D
ND
Soper
A M
AM
Godfrey
M D
MD
Poole
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016719:Radioimmunodetection; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D013997:Time Factors