Pelvic mass suspicious for malignancy (8 patients) or with a history of prior resection of a malignant ovarian mass (3 patients)/11
Tc-99m—albumin nanocolloid + blue dye
Dorsal and ventral sides of the remains of the proper ovarian and suspensory ligaments
At least 15 min
Aortic only 18%/ both aortic and pelvic 9%
Tc-99m: 27%/NA blue dye: 0%/NA
The current study
Suspicion of malignant ovarian tumor/30
Tc-99m-phytate
Proper ovarian and suspensory ligament
15–20 min
Aortic only 20%/pelvic only 23%/both aortic and pelvic 47%
90%/NA
Eight patients were considered in this study. Of these, five cases with an ovarian tumor were published elsewhere [20]. As such, these five patients were excluded from the study in question. ICG, indocyanine green; Tc-99m, technetium 99; NA, not available; SPECT/CT, single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography.