Technetium-99m-sulfur colloid for lymphoscintigraphy: effects of preparation parameters.

Unlabelled: There has been a resurgence in the use of lymphoscintigraphy for the external detection of lymph nodes for metastatic melanoma and breast tumors. Technetium-99m-antimony trisulfide colloid was the radiopharmaceutical developed for this procedure and was found to have a narrow distribution of small particles, 0.003-0.