programma & abstracts - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Radiologie

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Figure 1: Anterior(A) and lateral(B) scintigraphic imaging in a 59-year old female patient with breast cancer, two hours after injection of technetium-99
nanocolloid. The largest spot is the injection site of technetium-99-nanocolloid. The nannocolloid was injected peri-tumorally in the
breast. The lateral image also depicts two axillary lymph nodes (arrows) which have taken up the nanocolloid. These nodes are sentinel lymph
nodes as they are assumed to also be the first nodes to accumulate metastases.
# Age Breast Cancer Type Metastatic Node Blue Node
1 69 Ductal None No
2 83 Lobular None No
3 64 Mixed ductal-lobular Macro No
4 73 Mixed ductal-lobular Macro No
5 79 Ductal Macro Yes
Table 1: Patient characteristics of the patients with an unsuccessful lymphoscintigraphy procedure: Patients 1-3 received an axillary lymph node
dissection. Patient number 4 and 5 received a sentinel lymph node biopsy as in patient 4 the node was palpable and in patient 5 the sentinel node
dyed blue.
1 6 E R A D I O L O G E N D A G E N - 2 9 e n 3 0 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 1
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