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

Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Jul;44(7):580-581. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002600.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Lymph Nodes / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymph Nodes / surgery*
  • Male
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / methods*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography / methods*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Robotics / methods
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / methods*