Radioguided Surgery

Part I. Chemistry and Physics

1. Radiopharmaceuticals for Radioguided Surgery
Esteban Obenaus, Paola A. Erba, Marco Chinol, Christophe Wiele, Gyozo A. Janoki, Rudy A. Dierckx, Francesco Scopinaro, Alberto Signore

2. Physical Performance Parameters of Intraoperative Probes
Carlo Chiesa, Francesca Toscano, Mario Mariani, Emilio Bombardieri

3. Positron-Sensitive Probes
Schlomo Schneebaum, Richard Essner, Einat Even-Sapir

4. Gamma Ray Imaging Probes for Radioguided Surgery and Site-Directed Biopsy
Francesco Scopinaro, Alessandro Soluri

5. Radiation Protection in Radioguided Surgery
Edwin C. Glass, Wendy A. Waddington

6. Training and Credentialing for Radioguided Surgery
Eric D. Whitman

Part II. Sentinel Lymph Nodes

7. The Anatomy and Physiology of Lymphatic Circulation
Preya Ananthakrishnan, Giuliano Mariani, Luciano Moresco, Armando E. Giuliano

8. The Role of Lymph Node Staging for Clinical Decision Making in Patients with Solid Cancers
Fausto Badellino, Ilaria Pastina, Elisa Borsò, Sergio Ricci, H. William Strauss, Giuliano Mariani

9. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Breast Cancer
Charles E. Cox, John M. Cox, Giuliano Mariani, Caren E.G. Wilkie, Laura B. White, Samira Khera, Danielle M. Hasson

10. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Cutaneous Melanoma
Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, Roger F. Uren, Giuliano Mariani, John F. Thompson

11. Dynamic Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Penile Carcinoma
Simon Horenblas, Bin K. Kroon, Renato A. Valdés Olmos, Omgo E. Nieweg

12. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Cancer of the Head and Neck
Luca Calabrese, David Soutar, Jochen Werner, Roberto Bruschini, Concetta Cicco, Fausto Chiesa

13. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Gynecologic Malignancies
Emilio Bombardieri, Marco Maccauro, Rosanna Fontanelli, Francesco Raspagliesi, Giovanni Paganelli

14. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract
Yuko Kitagawa, Sukamal Saha, Masaki Kitajima

15. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Prostatic Cancer
Alexander Winter, Harry Vogt, Dorothea Weckermann, Rolf Harzmann, Friedhelm Wawroschek

16. Radioguided Biopsy of the Sentinel Lymph Node in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Giuseppe Boni, Gianpiero Manca, Franca M. A. Melfi, Marco Lucchi, Alfredo Mussi, Giuliano Mariani

17. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Thyroid Cancer
Massimo Salvatori, Domenico Rubello, Michael J. O’Doherty, Maria Rosa Pelizzo, Giuliano Mariani

18. Histopathology of Sentinel Lymph Nodes
Giuseppe Viale, Giovanni Mazzarol, Eugenio Maiorano

19. Frozen Section and Imprint Cytology in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer
Santo V. Nicosia, Charles E. Cox

20. Molecular Assessment of Sentinel Lymph Nodes
Farin Amersi, Armando E. Giuliano, Dave S.B. Hoon

Part III. Occult Lesion Localization

21. Where It All Began: The Heritage of Radioimmunoguided Surgery
Fausto Badellino, Mario Roselli, Marzio Perri, Fiorella Guadagni, Giuliano Mariani

22. Radioguided Occult Lesion Localization in the Breast
Giovanni Paganelli, Concetta Cicco, Giovanna Gatti, Alberto Luini

23. Minimally Invasive Radioguided Parathyroidectomy in Primary Hyperparathyroidism
James Norman, Domenico Rubello, Armando E. Giuliano, Giuliano Mariani

24. Radioguided Surgery of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Richard P. Baum, Sergio Sandrucci, Stefan Adams

25. Radioguided Surgery of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules
Giuseppe Boni, Franca M. A. Melfi, Gianpiero Manca, Marco Lucchi, Alfredo Mussi, Giuliano Mariani

26. Radioguided Surgery of Occult Lesions in Patients with Thyroid Cancer
Domenico Rubello, Massimo Salvatori, Maria Rosa Pelizzo, Giuseppe Boni, Giuliano Mariani

27. Radioguided Bone Lesion Localization
Gianpiero Manca, Giuliano Mariani, Lary A. Robinson

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Nuclear Medicine, Surgical Oncology, Surgery, Oncology, Pathology