Novel Experience in Hybrid Tracers: Clinical Evaluation of Feasibility and Efficacy in Using ICG-99mTc Nanotop for Sentinel Node Procedure in Breast Cancer Patients.

Gianpiero MancaLudovico Maria GarauSara MazzarriLaura MazzucaSimona MuccioliMatteo GhilliGiuseppe NaccaratoPatrick M CollettiDomenico RubelloManuela RoncellaDuccio VolterraniIelizza Desideri

Published in: Clinical nuclear medicine (2021)

The SLNB technique used with the ICG-99mTc Nanotop tracer resulted to be feasible, reliable, and safe. This hybrid compound allowed us to obtain excellent performance in terms of both preoperative lymphatic mapping and intraoperative SLN detection in breast cancer patients.

Keyphrases

fluorescence imaging
lymph node
patients undergoing
high resolution
minimally invasive
positron emission tomography
loop mediated isothermal amplification
real time pcr
pet imaging
label free
squamous cell carcinoma
high density
radiation therapy
early stage
quantum dots
locally advanced