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- December 9, 2012 at 12:23 pm
This might sound like a crazy question, but I had 2 nodes removed after they did the lymphangioscintography with radionuclide injections surrounding the melanoma excision site. In the pathology report they describe the nodes as "yellow-tan, pink-tan" lymph nodes. Wouldn't the nodes they removed, if they removed the right ones, be blue in color (from the radionuclide)?
This might sound like a crazy question, but I had 2 nodes removed after they did the lymphangioscintography with radionuclide injections surrounding the melanoma excision site. In the pathology report they describe the nodes as "yellow-tan, pink-tan" lymph nodes. Wouldn't the nodes they removed, if they removed the right ones, be blue in color (from the radionuclide)?
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- December 11, 2012 at 8:43 am
The surgeon could inject a radioactive substance, a blue dye or both substances to perform the SLNB. The SLN is then found either by a hand held device that senses the radioactivity or visually by the blue dye. Your surgeon probably had chosen the radionuclide substance.
Remember, no question is crazy if it is important to you!
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- December 11, 2012 at 8:43 am
The surgeon could inject a radioactive substance, a blue dye or both substances to perform the SLNB. The SLN is then found either by a hand held device that senses the radioactivity or visually by the blue dye. Your surgeon probably had chosen the radionuclide substance.
Remember, no question is crazy if it is important to you!
PSD -
- December 11, 2012 at 8:43 am
The surgeon could inject a radioactive substance, a blue dye or both substances to perform the SLNB. The SLN is then found either by a hand held device that senses the radioactivity or visually by the blue dye. Your surgeon probably had chosen the radionuclide substance.
Remember, no question is crazy if it is important to you!
PSD
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