Endobronchial lymphoscintigraphy

Lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel nodes.

It has been validated that sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) shows whether a patient's breast cancer or melanoma has spread to regional lymph nodes. As a result, management of patients with these cancers has been revolutionized. SLNB has replaced axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) as the staging modality of choice for early breast cancer and has replaced complete lymph node dissection as the...

Giant Endobronchial Inflammatory Polyp

Inflammatory endobronchial polyp is a rare disease mostly encountered in asthmatic patients. Chronic airway and foreign material irritation or thermal injury may result in the formation of granulated tissues and become polypoid mass. Herein, we describe a 52-year-old man with severe respiratory distress and infection with 35 years history of smoking. He had an obstructive pattern in his pulmona...

Lymphoscintigraphy and clinic

Lymphoedema is a clinically unusual picture characterized by slowing down or block of the lymphatic circulation of limb or limbs affected, with progressively worsening evolution and appearance of recurrent acute lymphangitis complications, responsible for a further increase in volume and consistency of edema. The diagnosis or early identification of lymphoedema as well as its predisposition, ca...

Radiocolloid Lymphoscintigraphy in Neoplastic Disease1

The transport and intralymphatic deposition of interstitially injected radiocolloid of suitable physical properties are medi ated through physiological processes and provide the means for obtaining scintigraphic images of drainage lymph nodes relevant to the injection site. In a large series of patients with breast carcinoma, high correlation has been shown between the internal mammary lymphosc...

Endobronchial embolization of metastatic endobronchial sarcoma.