Sentinel lymph node biopsy in upper tract urothelial cancers: an experience with intraoperative radiotracer injection.

Leili ZarifmahmoudiHamidreza Ghorbani Ramin Sadeghi Salman Soltani Kayvan Sadri Mahmoud Tavakkoli Maliheh Keshvari

Published in: Nuclear medicine review. Central & Eastern Europe (2021)

Sentinel node mapping is feasible in UTUC. Injection technique (intra-vesical approach vs peri-tumoral injection after exposure of the tumour) and location of the tumour (proximal vs distal) may affect the technique's feasibility.

Keyphrases

sentinel lymph node
ultrasound guided
lymph node
early stage
fine needle aspiration
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
high grade
patients undergoing
radiation therapy
high density
pet ct