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Vol. 37. Issue 6.
Pages 373-379 (November - December 2018)
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Vol. 37. Issue 6.
Pages 373-379 (November - December 2018)
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Next generation of radiotracers for sentinel lymph node biopsy: What is still necessary to establish new imaging paradigms?
Nueva generacion de radiotrzadores para la biopsia del ganglio centinela: ¿Que es necesario para establecer nuevos paradigmas de imagen?
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Sergi Vidal-Sicarta,b,
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, David R. Verac, Renato A. Valdés Olmosd
a Servei de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain
b Servei de Medicina Nuclear, IMI, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain
c University of California San Diego (UCSD), Department of Radiology, San Diego, United States
d Interventional Molecular Imaging Laboratory and Nuclear Medicine Section, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is now the standard of care for regional staging in several solid tumors. The interstitial administration of a radiotracer around the primary tumor provide the possibility to sequentially obtain images with a gamma camera and visualize lymphatic mapping and the SLN. There is, however, a large geographical variability in those radiotracers and nanocolloids ranging from 15 to 100nm are most widely employed in Europe, while filtered and unfiltered 99mTc-sulfur colloid (range 20–1000nm) is usually used in the USA with different drawbacks in its use. The new radiotracer 99mTc-Tilmanocept, designed specifically for the identification of SLNs and recently becoming commercially available in USA and Europe, appears to have the potency to overcome the shortcomings described for the conventional radiotracers used until now for SLN biopsy and at the same time to transform current imaging paradigms.

After delineating the challenges for the next generation of radiotracers, this paper discusses the properties of 99mTc-Tilmanocept, its validation process for SLN biopsy and its emerging clinical applications in various malignancies.

Keywords:
Sentinel node
Tilmanocept
Lymphatic mapping
Lymphoseek
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La biopsia del ganglio centinela (GC) es, en la actualidad, la técnica estándar para la estadificación regional de diversos tumores sólidos.

La administración intersticial de un radiotrazador alrededor del tumor primario proporciona la posibilidad de obtener imágenes secuenciales con una gamma cámara y visualizar el mapa linfático y los GCs.

Existe, sin embargo, una amplia variabilidad geográfica en estos radiotrazadores y, de este modo, los nanocoloides, se utilizan mayoritariamente en Europa (con un intervalo de tamaño de partícula entre 15–100nm), mientras que en EEUU se utiliza ampliamente el azufre coloidal (filtrado o no) marcado con 99mTc (rango 20-1000nm). El nuevo radiotrazador 99mTc-Tilmanocept, diseñado específicamente para la identificación de los GC, y recientemente introducido comercialmente en EEUU y Europa, parece tener la potencia para solucionar los inconvenientes descritos para los radiotrazadores convencionales utilizados hasta la fecha transformando al mismo tiempo los paradigmas actuales de la imagen gammagráfica.

Posteriormente a la descripción de los requisitos y retos esperados para los radiotrazadores de nueva generación, este artículo describe las propiedades del 99mTc-Tilmanocept, su proceso de validac ión para la biopsia del GC y sus aplicaciones clínicas emergentes en diversas neoplasias malignas.

Palabras clave:
Ganglio centinela
Tilmanocept
Mapa linfático
Lymphoseek

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