title: Technetium-99m tetrofosmin scintigraphy to evaluate breast lesions.
abstract: The aim of this study is to characterise benign from malignant breast lesions by using 99mTc-Tetrofosmin.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifteen female patients with suspected breast lesions and ten normal controls underwent breast scintigraphy with 99mTc-Tetrofosmin. All patients had conventional mammography. Breast imaging begun 20 minutes after i.v. injection of 740 MBq 99mTc-Tetrofosmin. Patients were imaged in supine and prone position. Results of the 15 patients with suspected breast lesions, 13 showed breast uptake, and 6 of them had suspicious lesions on mammography. Surgery confirmed 10 carcinomas and 3 benign lesions. Two patients demonstrated no abnormal accumulation or suspicious findings in mammography. None of the normal controls had breast uptake or mammographic abnormalities. Our study has a sensibility of 100% and 60%, and a specificity of 80% and 100% in scintigraphy and mammography respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings suggest that 99m Tc-Tetrofosmin may play a role in evaluating breast masses and that can differentiate benign from malignant lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Madariaga
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Almoguera
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Escat
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Vegazo
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trampal
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Perez Vazquez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D015902:Gamma Cameras; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; C078700:technetium tc-99m tetrofosmin