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Investigators at University of Sassari, Department of Nuclear Medicine target breast cancer

Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, August 21st, 2007

Scientists discuss in "Scintimammography with dedicated breast camera in unifocal and multifocal/multicentric primary breast cancer detection: a comparative study with SPECT" new findings in breast cancer. "The aim of this study was to assess the usefulness of planar scintimammography (SM) with a high-resolution dedicated breast camera (DBC) compared to SPECT in unifocal and multifocal/multicentric primary breast cancer (BC) detection. DBC planar SM and conventional SPECT were acquired using 99mTc-tetrofosmin as radiotracer in 85 consecutive patients suspect for BC at conventional imaging and clinical examination," researchers in Sassari, Italy report.

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