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Electrical impedance scanning: a new technique in the diagnosis of lymph nodes in which malignancy is suspected on ultrasound

A Malich, MD 1 T Fritsch 1 C Mauch, MD 2 T Boehm, MD 1 M Freesmeyer, MD 1 M Fleck, MD 1 R Anderson 3 and W A Kaiser, MD 1

1 Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology 2 Department of Radiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Bachstrasse 18, D-07740 Jena 3 Siemens Medical Engineering, Special Systems—Women's Health, Henkestrasse 127, D-91052 Erlangen, Germany



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Figure 1. Positive electrical impedance scanning examination of a suspicious cervical lymph node. Spots visible in sectors 1, 2 and 3 represent neoplastic recurrence in the same lymph node; in sector 4, two contralateral neoplastic occurrences are visible.

 


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Figure 2. Negative electrical impedance scanning of a suspicious cervical lymph node. (Bright lines at the edges of sector 3 represent contact artefacts.)

 





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