The role of ultrasound of sentinel nodes in the pre- and post-operative evaluation of stage I melanoma patients

Melanoma Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 191-198

  Testori, Alessandro ^a   Lazzaro, Gianluca ^a   Baldini, Federica ^a   Tosti, Giulio ^a   Mosconi, Massimo ^a   Lovati, Elena ^a   Bossi, Chiara ^a   Sanvito, Stefania ^a   Stanganelli, Ignazio ^b   Mazzarol, Giovanni ^a   De Salvo, Gian Luca ^c   Trifirò, Giuseppe ^a   Biffi, Roberto ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lymph node metastasis; Melanoma; Sentinel node biopsy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 20544478115     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008390-200506000-00008     Document Type: Article

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