Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology prior to sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1682-1689

  Voit, Christiane ^a   Kron, Martina ^b   Schäfer, Gregor ^a   Schoengen, Alfred ^b   Audring, Heike ^a   Lukowsky, Ansgar ^a   Schwürzer Voit, Markus ^a   Sterry, Wolfram ^a   Winter, Helmut ^a   Rademaker, Jürgen ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration cytology; Melanoma; Sentinel lymph node biopsy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33845638356     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9046-4     Document Type: Article

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