Sentinel lymph node mapping in post chemotherapy nonseminoma testicular cancer patients undergoing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: A series of nine cases.

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作者: Sadri, Kayvan ; Soltani, Salman ; Zarifmahmoudi, Leili ; Ghorbani, Hamidreza ; Aghaee, Atena ; Sadeghi, Ramin

OBJECTIVESTesticular germ cell cancers are the most common solid malignancy among young men at the age ranging between 14 and 35 years. In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of sentinel lymph node mapping using intraoperative injection of radiotracer in nonseminomatous testicular cancer patients with history of orchiectomy who were candidate for retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) in post-chemotherapy setting.METHODSNine consecutive cases were included in the study. Technetium-99m-labelled phytate was injected in two divided doses in the stump of the spermatic cord, through transabdominal approach. A hand-held gamma probe was used for radio-guided retroperitoneal sentinel lymph node detection intraoperatively and confirming the location of the sentinel lymph nodes.RESULTSDetection rate and the false negative rate were estimated as the main indices. The detection rate was 6/9 (66%) and the false negative rate was 0/2 (0%). Location of the dissected sentinel lymph nodes were interaortocaval (2 patients), internal iliac (1 patient), external iliac (1 patient), common iliac (2 patients), and paraaortic (1 patient).CONCLUSIONSentinel lymph node mapping technique seems to be feasible and promising in post chemotherapy non-seminoma testis cancer patients who are candidate for RPLND; however, further larger studies are needed to increase and standardize the detection rate.

2021-11-01·Head & Neck2区 · 医学

Feasibility of lateral sentinel lymph node biopsy in medullary thyroid cancer: Surrogate tool for determining prophylactic lateral neck dissection—A pilot study

2区 · 医学

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作者: Kim, Jee Soo ; Back, Kyorim ; Kim, Min Jhi ; Choe, Jun‐Ho ; Kim, Jung‐Han

AbstractBackgroundsThis study aimed to evaluate usefulness of lateral sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in determining lateral neck dissection (LND) of patients with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC).MethodsSixteen patients with MTC were enrolled in the study from January 2013 to June 2019. Intratumoral injection of technetium (Tc)‐99m phytate followed by lymphoscintigraphy was performed preoperatively. Lateral sentinel lymph nodes were detected by a collimated gamma probe and underwent frozen analysis. Ipsilateral LND was performed in all patients to assess lateral LN status.ResultsThe identification rate of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) detected by radioisotope was 87.5% (14 of 16 patients). The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of frozen analyses were 66.7%, 100%, 100%, and 91.6%, respectively. Based on final histopathology, however, the diagnostic values of lateral SLNB were all 100%.ConclusionsThis study showed that lateral SLNB can be a promising surgical tool for decisions on LND in patients with MTC.

2019-03-01·Clinical Nuclear Medicine3区 · 医学

Concordance Between Intracervical and Fundal Injections for Sentinel Node Mapping in Patients With Endometrial Cancer?

3区 · 医学

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作者: Sadeghi, Ramin ; Yousefi, Zohreh ; Zarifmahmoudi, Leili ; Kadkhodayan, Sima ; Hasanzadeh Mofrad, Malihe ; Farazestanian, Marjaneh

ObjectiveA major controversy in sentinel node (SN) biopsy of endometrial cancer is the injection site of mapping material. We compared lymphatic drainage pathways of the uterine cervix and uterine body in the same patients by head-to-head comparison of intracervical radiotracer and fundal blue dye injections.MethodsAll patients with pathologically proven endometrial cancer were included. Each patient received 2 intracervical injections of 99mTc-phytate. At the time of laparotomy, the uterus was exposed, and each patient was injected with 2 aliquots of patent blue V (2 mL each) in the subserosal fundal midline locations. The anatomical locations of all hot, blue, or hot/blue SNs were recorded.ResultsOverall, 45 patients entered the study. At least 1 SN could be identified in 75 of 90 hemipelves (83.3% overall detection rate, 82.2% for radiotracer [intracervical] alone, and 81.1% for blue dye [fundal] alone). In 71 hemipelves, SNs were identified with both blue dye (fundal) and radiotracer (intracervical) injections. In 69 of these 71 hemipelves, at least 1 blue/hot SN could be identified (97.18% concordance rate). In 10 patients, para-aortic SNs were identified. All of these nodes were identified by fundal blue dye injection, and only 2 were hot.ConclusionsOur study shows that lymphatic drainage to the pelvic area from the uterine corpus matches the lymphatic pathways from the cervix, and both intracervical and fundal injections of SN mapping materials go to the same pelvic SNs.

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