RESUMEN
La linfogammagrafía es una técnica ampliamente aceptada para la detección selectiva del ganglio centinela en el melanoma maligno. Presentamos el caso de un paciente intervenido de un melanoma inguinal y que fue remitido al Servicio de Medicina Nuclear para una linfogammagrafía preoperatoria. Existieron problemas técnicos para la detección del ganglio centinela debido a su cercanía con los puntos de inyección. Nosotros planteamos como objetivo la posibilidad de realizar una linfogammagrafía intraoperatoria como técnica válida y de ayuda en casos como el que describimos
Lymphoscintigraphy is a widely accepted method used to detect selectively the sentinel node in malignant melanoma. This is the case report of a patient who was operated on for an inguinal melanoma and who was referred to the Nuclear Medicine Section for preoperative lymphoscintigraphy. There were technical problems for sentinel node detection due to the proximity of injection points. We aimed to know the possibility to perform an intraoperative lymphoscintigraphy as a valid and useful technique in cases as this one
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Masculino , Anciano , Humanos , Melanoma/patología , Melanoma , Biopsia del Ganglio Linfático Centinela , Neoplasias Cutáneas/patología , Neoplasias Cutáneas , Cuidados Intraoperatorios , Conducto InguinalRESUMEN
Lymphoscintigraphy is a widely accepted method used to detect selectively the sentinel node in malignant melanoma. This is the case report of a patient who was operated on for an inguinal melanoma and who was referred to the Nuclear Medicine Section for preoperative lymphoscintigraphy. There were technical problems for sentinel node detection due to the proximity of injection points. We aimed to know the possibility to perform an intraoperative lymphoscintigraphy as a valid and useful technique in cases as this one.
