PER OPERATIVE LOCALIZATION OF A CARCINOID-TUMOR OF THE BREAST USING IN-111 PENTETREOTIDE AND A NUCLEAR SURGICAL PROBE

A 69-year-old woman presented with a single enlarged lymph node in the left axilla. Clinical examination and other investigations, including various imaging methods, failed to reveal the primary tumour. However, indium-lll pentetreotide scan revealed a site of uptake in the anterior region of the left thorax. Peroperative imaging with In-111-pentetreotide confirmed the tumour uptake and use of a nuclear surgical probe allowed precise localization of the tumour, which was completely resected.