Minimal-Invasive Robot-Assisted Image-Guided Resection of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-Positive Lymph Nodes in Recurrent Prostate Cancer.

van Leeuwen FWB, van Oosterom MN, Meershoek P, van Leeuwen PJ1, Berliner C2, van der Poel HG1, Graefen M3, Maurer T3.

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1

Department of Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

3

Martini-Clinic, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Abstract

With the rapid expansion of robot-assisted surgical procedures, the need for robot-compliant image guidance technologies has also increased. Examples hereof are the integrated firefly fluorescence camera, the drop-in ultrasound probe, and the recently introduced DROP-IN gamma probe. Combined with Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen-(PSMA)-11 PET/CT (staging) and Tc-PSMA-I&S SPECT/CT (preoperative imaging), the latter DROP-IN gamma probe technology recently allowed us to perform the first clinical cases of robot-assisted PSMA-guided salvage surgery of lymphatic metastases.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.

PMID:

 

31107740

 

DOI:

 

10.1097/RLU.0000000000002600

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