Sentinel node imaging methods. Evaluate diagnostic value of the study

Abstract

Admission Lymphoscintigraphy is a universally used method of the visualisation of the guard knot which is the first lymph glands on the road of rafting of lymph from the cancerous focus. The work contains the description of three methods of depicting the guard knot. Dye method applied in lymphoscintigraphy was introduced on the example of cancer of the cervix, isotopic method - of malignant melanoma, associated method dye-isotopic on the example of the breast cancer. Possibility of the application lymphoscintigraphy to the purpose of the marking lets the location of the guard knot avoid making total limphoadenectomia. Purpose Presenting methods of depicting the guard knot in limfoscyntygrafii on the example of cancer of the cervix, malignant melanoma and breast cancer. Evaluation of the diagnostic value of the test. Materials and methods Using keywords: guard knot, limfoscyntygrafia, cancer of the cervix, malignant melanoma, breast cancer bibliographical Medline bases, Scopus, DynaMed, the Web were searched of Science. The summary and conclusions On the example of chosen cancers three methods of depicting the guard knot were described. The work contains a thorough description of the way of performing the test limfoscyntygraficznego and radiopharmaceuticals applied for that purpose. The test is marked relatively by a high sensitivity. The degree of the progress of metastasizing cancers can so be a road of lymphatic vessels determined by depicting the guard knot. This way of diagnostics outweighs in the course of making right decisions in relation to the further course of treatment of the patient.