edited by Giuliano Mariani, Armando E. Giuliano, H. William Strauss
New York :
Springer,
c2008
1 online resource (xvi, 297 p., [12] p. of plates) :
ill. (some col.)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Radiopharmaceuticals for radioguided surgery -- Physical performance parameters of intraoperative probes -- Positron-sensitive probes -- Gamma ray imaging probes for radioguided surgery and site-directed biopsy -- Radiation protection in radioguided surgery -- Training and credentialing for radioguided surgery -- The anatomy and physiology of lymphatic circulation -- The role of lymph node staging for clinical decision making in patients with solid cancers -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in cutaneous melanoma -- Dynamic sentinel lymph node biopsy in penile carcinoma -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in cancer of the head and neck -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in bynecologic malignancies -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in cancers of the gastrointestinal tract -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in prostatic cancer -- Radioguided biopsy of the sentinel lymph node in patients with non-small cell lung cancer -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in thyroid cancer -- Histopathology of sentinel lymph nodes -- Frozen section and imprint cytology in sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer -- Molecular assessment of sentinel lymph nodes -- Where it all began: the heritage of radioimmunoguided surgery -- Radioguided occult lesion localization in the breast -- Minimally invasive radioguided parathyroidectomy in primary hyperparathyroidism -- Radioguided surgery of neuroendocrine tumors -- Radioguided surgery of solitary pulmonary nodules -- Radioguided surgery of occult lesions in patients with thyroid cancer -- Radioguided bone lesion localization