SPECT/CT imaging in breast cancer - current status and challenges
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15110%2F16%3A33161142" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15110/16:33161142 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://biomed.papers.upol.cz/pdfs/bio/2016/04/03.pdf" target="_blank" >http://biomed.papers.upol.cz/pdfs/bio/2016/04/03.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/bp.2016.036" target="_blank" >10.5507/bp.2016.036</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
SPECT/CT imaging in breast cancer - current status and challenges
Original language description
Background: The increasing incidence of breast cancer worldwide raises the importance of improving imaging techniques for disease stratification after early lesion detection. SPECT/CT imaging is now widely available but its diagnostic potential is not fully utilized for more specific purposes including breast cancer patient stratification. Methods and Results: A Pubmed search for both original and review articles related to the value of SPECT/CT in breast cancer patients and comparison to other diagnostic methods. 62 articles were found using the key words SPECT/CT, Fusion Image and Breast Cancer. Development of a new generation of SPECT/CT systems and their introduction into practice has changed the old diagnostic algorithm. The increasing importance of SPECT/CT in the detection of bone metastases is confirmed. The diagnostic accuracy of new SPECT/CT instruments in the diagnostics of bone metastases is nearly comparable to PET/CT scans. SPECT/CT is more widely available and costs less than PET. It is able not only to identify a sentinel lymph nodes in atypical localizations but also to detect sentinel lymph nodes non visualized on previous planar scans. SPECT/CT offers precise anatomic localization of sentinel lymph nodes, thereby facilitating surgery. Knowledge of precise sentinel lymph node localization can also be applied in radiotherapy. Conclusions: The role of hybrid SPECT/CT imaging in breast cancer patients is changing. It is a powerful modality for skeletal and nodal staging in breast cancer patients with important impact on therapy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FD - Oncology and haematology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biomedical Papers-Olomouc
ISSN
1213-8118
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
160
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
474-483
UT code for WoS article
000392810500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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