Positron emission tomography (PET) has been used in staging the axilla. Gamma Camera PET (GCPET) is a cost effective alternative, but poorly studied. The aim of this study was to assess GCPET in demonstrating metastatic deposits in axillary nodes in patients with a high likelihood of nodal disease. Twenty-seven women with large (T2, T3 or T4) or advanced breast cancer (N1, N2 or M1) were recrui...

AIMS To compare the predictive values of axillary ultrasound (US) combined with fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology with tumour size (T stage) and grade in the preoperative staging of breast cancer. More precise definition of axillary FNA reporting nomenclature is also presented. PATIENTS AND METHODS 314 patients: 119 patients had suspicious US investigated by FNA, 195 patients had normal U...

AIM To assess dual time point 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose (18)(F)FDG PET-CT accuracy in nodal staging and in detection of extra-axillary involvement. MATERIAL AND METHODS Dual time point [(18)F] FDG PET/CT scan was performed in 75 patients. Visual and semiquantitative assessment of lymph nodes was performed. Semiquantitative measurement of SUV and ROC-analysis were carried out to calcul...

Immediate breast reconstruction is an excellent complementary treatment for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ and early-stage invasive breast cancer. Although lattisimus dorsi myocutaneous flap is one of the well accepted and versatile methods of breast reconstruction, there have been very few reports describing a myoadipose flap, especially through the same axillary incision used for noda...

Introduction: Quality assurance is an essential aspect of cancer care. Assessment of surgical quality in breast cancer is still evolving. Variability in surgical care among surgeons has been well documented in literature and we sought to investigate such variation between two groups of surgeons referring patients to our oncology center. Methods: A prospective review of patient records of all br...

Recent data show that axillary coverage can be obtained, but only through a selective CT-based treatment planning, as standard tangential fields are inadequate to deliver therapeutic doses. Currently, the replacement of axillary dissection with new techniques, such as sentinel node (SN) biopsy, makes it necessary to re-address the question about the real role of axillary irradiation, complicate...

UNLABELLED Edema of the limbs is a common reason for medical consultation, for which the lymphoscintigraphy is considered to be a reliable method for its differential diagnosis. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of radionuclide studies in the differential diagnosis of edema, and the diagnostic yield of different scintigraphic patterns. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 61 patients, mean ag...

Aim: Assess the role of hybrid modality SPECT/CT versus planar scintigraphy in sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification patients with breast cancer. Methods: Planar and were performed 23 women cancer (mean age 59.5 years range 25 - 82 years) invasive (T0, T1 T2), without clinical evidence axillary metastases (N0) no remote (M0), radiocolloid was injected four subareolar sites. images separately...