Monthly Archives: August 2019

Drs. Kisyo Mihara and Sachiko Matsuda, lecturers at the Keio University School of Medicine, briefly summarize their presentation of a novel tracer imaging for SLN-navigated laparoscopic surgery in gallbladder cancer during the 74th General Meeting of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery Conference (Session title: Significance and future prospects of navigation surgery for hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, July 28, 2019): “The aim of… Read More »

While sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) of axillary lymph nodes has become standard practice for the staging and treatment in early breast cancer, SLNB of parasternal lymph nodes has yet to be established as a routine performance due to its lack of clinical relevance. Possibly because its effectiveness has only been studied in axillary lymph… Read More »

Prof. Masujiro Makita, Head of the Department of Breast Surgery at Nippon Medical School Hospital, elaborates on his experience using TAKUMI in his numerous clinical trials: “I was very intrigued to test how sentinel lymph node biopsy using TAKUMI in conjunction with Ferucarbotran (Resovist®), a superparamagnetic iron oxide contrast agent, would fare against the traditional… Read More »