La Radiologia medica
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To evaluate the predictive value of sentinel lymph node biopsy versus axillary node dissection on lymph node status in patients with T1-T2 breast cancer. ⋯ In agreement with previous studies, our results showed that sentinel lymph node radioguided biopsy is a simple and reliable method for predicting axillary lymph nodes status and for avoiding axillary dissection in early breast cancer patients with sentinel node free of metastases.
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La Radiologia medica · Apr 2002
Interventional radiology techniques in the treatment of complications due to videolaparoscopic cholecystectomy.
The development of videolaparoscopic cholecystectomy (VLC) has represented an important achievement in the search for minimally invasive surgical procedures, and especially in the surgical management of such a common and costly disease as cholelithiasis. However, the literature shows that, while VLC carries a similar mortality rate to open surgery, it has a greater incidence (2-5 times) of iatrogenic injury to the biliary tract and hepatic hilum [3, 5, 10, 25, 28]; this incidence further increases in cases of so-called "hard cholecystis" [10, 13, 25, 28, 30]. An equally minimally invasive technique is therefore needed to treat these lesions; this technique should be effective and safe, allow for shorter hospital stays and lower costs, and be made available at all the centres where VLC is performed. ⋯ Interventional radiology carried out according to indications seems to be the most natural way to treat the complications of VLC. It spares the patients, who opted for a minimally invasive technique like VLC, the need to undergo open surgery, and allows for shorter hospital stays and more efficient cost management for the hospital.