Title of article - Letter in response to 'The role of research for advanced practitioners'.
Abstract
Cancer screening and surveillance programmes and the use of sophisticated imaging tools such as positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) have increased the detection of impalpable lesions requiring imaging guidance for excision. A new technique involves intra-lesional insertion of a low-activity iodine-125 ((125)I) seed and detection of the radioactive signal in theatre using a hand-held gamma probe to guide surgery. Whilst several studies describe using this method to guide the removal of impalpable breast lesions, only a handful of publications report its use to guide excision of lesions outside the breast. We describe a case in which radio-guided occult lesion localisation using an iodine 125 seed was used to guide excision of an impalpable posterior chest wall metastasis detected on PET-CT.
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The University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health 69A High St, Taree, New South Wales, 2430, Australia Email: Tel: +61 2 6515 1912;
Details of Journal for Letter in response to 'The role of research for advanced practitioners'.
Journal Title - Journal of medical radiation sciences
ISSN - 2051-3895
Volume - 62
Issue - 3
Publish date - 2015-Sep
Language - eng
Country - United States
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