Preclinical detection of metastatic melanoma
Mojiminiyi, O.A.; Stretch, J.R.; Shepstone, B.J.; Soper, N.D.; Godfrey, A.M.; Poole, M.D.
Journal of Nuclear Biology and Medicine 35(2): 73-75
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0368-3249 PMID: 1932180 Document Number: 387533
We present a patient with melanoma in whom the performance of combined immunoscintigraphy and immunolymphoscintigraphy indicated the presence of metastatic disease 16 months before clinical manifestation. This approach may be useful in the early detection of metastatic disease and the patient presented is a lesson that cutaneous foci of uptake should not be dismissed as false-positive in the absence of clinical correlation.