Tumor-positive sentinel node biopsy of the groin in clinically node-negative melanoma patients: Superficial or superficial and deep lymph node dissection?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1485-1491

  Van Der Ploeg, Iris M C ^a   Valdés Olmos, Renato A ^a   Kroon, Bin B R ^a   Nieweg, Omgo E ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Groin; Lymph node dissection; Lymphatic metastasis; Melanoma; Radionuclide imaging; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; OBTURATOR NERVE; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GROIN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 41549128400     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-9840-2     Document Type: Article

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