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Effect of Patient Age, Breast Density, and Topical Anesthetic Cream on Perceived Pain with Sentinel Lymph Node Scintigraphy

Kimberly J. Chandler, Christopher H. Hunt, Robert Morreale, Geoffrey B. Johnson and Patrick J. Peller
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology March 2012, 40 (1) 44-47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.111.095547

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    FIGURE 1.

    Depiction of our standard SLN injection practice. Four intradermal, periareolar injections of 99mTc-labeled filtered sulfur colloid are placed in quadrant of tumor before imaging. Injections are placed near one another. (Reprinted with permission of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, all rights reserved.)

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    Despite wide range of ages for patients undergoing SLN, no correlation between patient age and comparative pain scale was found (R2 = 0.0029, P = 0.63).

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    Comparative pain scale plotted vs. BIRADS breast density demonstrates no correlation (R2 = 0.00049, P = 0.84). 1 = fatty density; 2 = scattered fibroglandular tissue; 3 = heterogeneous tissue; 4 = dense breast tissue.

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    Topical anesthetic cream exposure time of 20 or 60 min did not correlate with comparative pain scale. In addition, use or disuse of topical anesthetic cream did not correlate with statistically significant difference in comparative pain scale (Kruskal–Wallis: χ22 = 1.0, P = 0.61).

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