01.01.2012 | Editorial
Changing paradigms in radioguided surgery and intraoperative imaging: the GOSTT concept
Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 1/2012
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Ever since the first descriptions as an aid for sentinel lymph node biopsy in the early 1990s [1, 2], interest in radioguided surgery has been rising sharply and continues to do so with respect to both the number of articles published in the medical literature and the amount of procedures performed. In Europe, lymphoscintigraphic imaging procedures for sentinel lymph node biopsy have markedly increased, by about 17.5%, between the years 2005 and 2008 (source: European Association of Nuclear Medicine), a period during which single photon imaging procedures in general were expected to remain substantially stable or actually show some decline attributed to competition by the growing number of positron emission tomography (PET) studies. …Anzeige