What will I experience during lymphoscintigraphy?

What will I experience during lymphoscintigraphy?

For a lymphoscintigraphy, as the patient comes to the clinic, again they are greeted and an appropriate history is taken, making sure that the procedure is indicated. And then, depending upon where the tumour is, for example if it is breast cancer or a melanoma, a small amount of radio tracer is delivered under the skin or around the tumour, according to the protocol. And then the patient is basically taken to the camera system and dynamic images are obtained from the patient to see where the pattern of the drainage is. And finally, when we see a focal accumulation in some area, this tells us this could be the lymph node, the sentinel lymph node. Then that area on the skin is marked and that's the end of the lymphoscintigraphy procedure.