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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:426-430
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
a First Department of Surgery, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube Yamaguchi, Japan,
b Department of Radiology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube Yamaguchi, Japan
Accepted for publication July 3, 2003.
* Address reprint requests to Dr Ueda, First Department of Surgery, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minami-Kogushi, Ube Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan.
e-mail: kaueda{at}yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
BACKGROUND: Previous studies on intrathoracic lymph node mapping have focused on the validity of a sentinel node concept, but not on the usefulness for sentinel node biopsy.
METHODS: The subjects were 15 patients clinically diagnosed with N0 nonsmall cell lung cancer. Technetium-99m tin colloid was injected into the peritumoral area 1 day preoperatively and a time course of tracer migration was monitored by scintigraphy. A hand-held gamma probe counter was used to count the intrathoracic lymph node stations. Resected nodes were also counted to assess the accuracy of the intrathoracic counting.
RESULTS: Serial scintigraphies showed that the tracer migrated through airways and the appearance resembled hot nodes. On intrathoracic counting, 50% of the nodal stations appeared positive; however, only 23% of these apparently positive nodal stations were ultimately shown to be truly radioactive. The true positive and true negative rates of detecting intrathoracic hot nodes were 100% and 56%, respectively. Because the counts of the nodal stations could include the counts from the hot primary tumor ("shine-through") or airway radioactivity, legitimate hot nodes were identified after dissecting all the apparently positive nodal stations. Two of the 9 patients in whom hot nodes were identified had nodal metastatic disease and actually had tumor cells within the hot nodes. The only complication related to the preoperative injection of technetium-99m was a minor pneumothorax.
CONCLUSIONS: Although radioisotope intrathoracic lymph node mapping is safe, it appears to be unsuitable for sentinel node biopsy because shine-through and the airway-migrated radioactive tracer complicated the intrathoracic counting. Only serial scintigraphy could distinguish hot nodes from airway migration.
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