First experience with a new technique: portable gamma camera usage for sentinel lymph node identification in a patient with breast cancer

Abstract

The newest development in sentinel lymph node imaging is portable gamma probe imaging. In this case report, results of all SLN detection methods were analyzed. The patient was imaged using a large field-of-view gamma camera with additional blue dye administration and intraoperative localization of sentinel lymph node using both gamma probe and portable gamma camera was performed. In this case report, the value of additional portable gamma camera imaging was analyzed.

Intraoperative sentinel node imaging versus SPECT/CT in oral cancer – A blinded comparison

“…New more flexible technology (e.g. freehand SPECT, hand-held gamma cameras) may be used to allow intraoperative SN imaging thus reducing the cost of the pathway as well as opening the technique to deeper tumours that are only accessible with the patient under general anaesthetic [13][14][15].…”

The potential of the Crystal Cam handheld gamma-camera for preoperative and intraoperative sentinel lymph node localization in early-stage oral cancer

“…The handheld gamma-camera used in this study (Crystal Cam, Crystal Photonics GmbH, Berlin, Germany) is relatively inexpensive and highly portable, owing to its small size and low weight (see ‘ Specifications Crystal Cam ’), which can be fully managed by the surgeon in a sterile setting. Previously, the feasibility and utility of this handheld gamma-camera for SLN localization has been described in melanoma and breast cancer patients [ 22 – 25 ].…”