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01-10-2013 | Book Review
Giuliano Mariani, Gianpiero Manca, Federica Orsini, Sergi Vidal-Sicart, Renato A. Valdés Olmos (eds): Atlas of Lymphoscintigraphy and Sentinel Node Mapping
Springer-Verlag Italia, 2013 (ISBN: 978-88-470-2765-7)
Authors:
Antonia Ferraro, Luigi Mansi
Published in:
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Issue 10/2013
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Excerpt
Lymphoscintigraphy is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that provides information about the functional status of the lymphatic system. Originally used for the staging of lymphomas or to identify the causes of peripheral oedema and/or of lymphatic intracavitary effusions, it is currently widely performed in oncological surgery for radioguided biopsy of the sentinel node, as the first drainage station of a lymphatic metastasis. …