Sentinel lymph node mapping in patients with stage I endometrial carcinoma: a focus on bilateral mapping identification by comparing radiotracer Tc99m with blue dye versus indocyanine green fluorescent dye.
Andrea PapadiaIgnacio ZapardielBeatrice BussiFabio GhezziMarcello CeccaroniElena De PontiFederica EliseiSara ImbodenBegoña Diaz de la NovalMaria Luisa GasparriGiampaolo Di MartinoJavier De SantiagoMichael MuellerFrancesca VecchioneFederica Dell'OrtoAlessandro BudaPublished in: Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology (2016)
In this study, fluorescent mapping using ICG resulted equivalent to the standard combined radiocolloid and BD, but real-time SLN mapping achieves a higher bilateral detection rate. The added value that this fast emerging technology promises to give certainly warrants future studies to further consolidate the advantages there are over the standard technique.