Per operative localization of a carcinoid tumour of the breast using indium-111 pentetreotide and a nuclear surgical probe

B Meunier; J Le Cloirec; L Dazord; J Leveque; T Lesimple; P Tas; P Bourguet

doi:10.1007/BF01081525

Per operative localization of a carcinoid tumour of the breast using indium-111 pentetreotide and a nuclear surgical probe

Eur J Nucl Med. 1995 Mar;22(3):281-3. doi: 10.1007/BF01081525.

Authors

B Meunier¹, J Le Cloirec, L Dazord, J Leveque, T Lesimple, P Tas, P Bourguet

Affiliation

¹ Département d'Oncologie Médicale, Centre de Lutte contre le Cancer, Rennes, France.

PMID: 7789401
DOI: 10.1007/BF01081525

Abstract

A 69-year-old woman presented with a single enlarged lymph node in the left axilla. Clinical examination and other investigations, including various imaging methods, failed to reveal the primary tumour. However, indium-111 pentetreotide scan revealed a site of uptake in the anterior region of the left thorax. Peroperative imaging with 111In-pentetreotide confirmed the tumour uptake and use of a nuclear surgical probe allowed precise localization of the tumour, which was completely resected.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Breast Neoplasms / surgery
Carcinoid Tumor / diagnostic imaging*
Carcinoid Tumor / surgery
Female
Humans
Indium Radioisotopes*
Radionuclide Imaging
Radiosurgery
Somatostatin / analogs & derivatives*

Substances

Indium Radioisotopes
Somatostatin
pentetreotide