Affiliation:
1. Department of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London
Abstract
Abstract
The ability of regional lymph nodes to take up 99Tcm- labelled antimony sulphide colloid from the breast tissue was studied in 50 patients with mammary symptoms by gamma-camera scanning. Thirteen out of 14 patients with histologically confirmed carcinoma of the breast had a depressed uptake of labelled colloid in ipsilateral nodes, i. e. a positive scan. Twenty-nine out of 32 patients with benign breast disease had a negative scan. The method promises to aid both the precise diagnosis o breast disease and the definition of the extent of mammary cancer.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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