[Place of hand-held gamma camera (POCI) in sentinel node biopsy].
The main interest in the sentinel node (SN) detection concept has led to the development of several prototypes of hand held gamma cameras. After the first successful clinical trials with intra-operative imaging probes, the time has come to evaluate the potential benefits of these devices. The objective of this review was to show the potential interest of a hand-held camera POCI to perform a lymphoscintigraphy in order to precisely localize SNs in patients with breast cancer.
Barranger
Emmanuel
E
Gynécologie obstétrique, Hôpital Lariboisière, 2 rue Ambroise-Paré, 75010 Paris. ebarrang@club-internet.fr
Kerrou
Kaldoun
K
Pitre
Stéphanie
S
Duval
Marie-Alix
MA
Siebert
Rienert
R
Charon
Yves
Y
Uzan
Serge
S
D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy / Q000379:methods*