title: [Place of hand-held gamma-cameras in breast cancer].
abstract: Non-palpable breast cancers are more and more frequent. Their surgical management requires the excision of the tumor and sentinel lymph node (SLN) needing a technical preoperative organization combining preoperative identification of the tumor by wire guide and injection of a radioactive tracer for the identification of SLN. The implementation of this minimally invasive surgery is sometimes paradoxically complicated due to the presurgical organization requiring several medical teams. It is for this reason that hand-held gamma-cameras have been developed, used either preoperatively or during surgery to replace lymphoscintigraphy but also as a help to excision of the tumor after radioisotope injection. The objective of this study was to evaluate the interest of the main hand-held gamma-cameras used in breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie obstétrique, hôpital Jean-Verdier, AP-HP, avenue du 14-Juillet, 93143 Bondy, France. alex.bricou@gmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bricou
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Netter
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Duval
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Charon
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barranger
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D015902:Gamma Cameras; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D010173:Palpation; D011868:Radioisotopes; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes