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 t111In-pentetreotide confirmed the tumour uptake and use of a nuclear surgical probe allowed precise localization of the tumour, which was completely resected.
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Meunier, B., Le Cloire, J., Dazord, L. et al. Per operative localization of a carcinoid tumour of the breast using indium-111 pentetreotide and a nuclear surgical probe. Eur J Nucl Med 22, 281–283 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081525
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