title: Radical isotope surgery: an enrichment for the surgical therapy of gynecological malignancies.
abstract: Intraoperative lymphscintigraphy during radical isotope surgery was performed in 242 patients suffering from cervical cancer and 170 patients with breast carcinoma. The results show a decreased rate of recurrence mortality in cervical cancer stage I and a decreased rate of recurrencies and metastases in breast carcinoma. In ovarian cancer patients radiommunoscintigraphy was introduced in the diagnostic procedure and is now performed intraoperatively. The results show a high positive prediction value of 93%. In 5 out of 28 patients radioimmunoscintigraphy identified tumor regrowth while all other methods failed.
mesh_terms: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000965:Antimony; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000379:methods*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008722:Methods; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D017556:Technetium Compounds; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D017556:Technetium Compounds; C019096:technetium Tc 99m antimony sulfide; D013667:Technetium; D000965:Antimony