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

Leeuwen, F.W.B. van; Oosterom, M.N. van; Meershoek, P.; Leeuwen, P.J. van; Berliner, C.; Poel, H.G. van der; ... ; Maurer, T. (2019)

Article / Letter to editor

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-68-prostate-specific membrane antigen-(PSMA)-11 PET/CT (staging) and Tc-99m-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.

• PET
• PSMA
• molecular imaging
• radioguided surgery
• robot-assisted surgery
• SPECT

• All authors: Leeuwen, F.W.B. van; Oosterom, M.N. van; Meershoek, P.; Leeuwen, P.J. van; Berliner, C.; Poel, H.G. van der; Graefen, M.; Maurer, T.
• Date: 2019-07-01
• Journal: Clinical Nuclear Medicine
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 580 - 581
• DOI: doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000002600