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Use of diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures in breast cancer
Author(s) -
Quinn James L.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197112)28:6<1695::aid-cncr2820280659>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , pericardial effusion , breast cancer , cancer , carcinoma , mammary gland , stage (stratigraphy) , radionuclide imaging , nuclear medicine , pathology , surgery , paleontology , biology
The use of radionuclide imaging procedures to help in the management of patients with carcinoma has been disappointingly restricted to establishment of distant metastases at an advanced stage of disease. The bone and brain scans have been shown to be positive in greater than 90% of cases of proved metastases to these organs, whereas the liver scan accuracy is closer to 80%. In the rare instances of tumorous effusion in the pericardial sac, the scans are quite useful as a confirmatory procedure. The ability to, delineate the extent of the carcinoma, either at local, regional nodal metastases, or distant metastases to the adrenals, ovaries, pituitary gland, lungs, or peritoneal spaces, has been unsuccessful, to date.