Lenka Vermeeren, Renato A Valdés Olmos, Wim Meinhardt, Axel Bex, Henk G van der Poel, Wouter V Vogel, Ferida Sivro, Cees A Hoefnagel, Simon Horenblas
UNLABELLED: Laparoscopic evaluation of sentinel nodes is useful for staging prostate cancer, but preoperative localization of deep abdominal sentinel nodes with planar lymphoscintigraphy is difficult. We evaluated the value of SPECT/CT for detecting and localizing sentinel nodes in prostate cancer. METHODS: (99m)Tc-nanocolloid was injected peri- and intratumorally, guided by transrectal ultrasonography, in 46 patients with prostate cancer of intermediate prognosis...
June 2009: Journal of Nuclear Medicine