Is sentinel node mapping useful in anorectal melanoma?

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-42

  Mariolis Sapsakos, Theodoros ^a   Malamitsi, Julia ^a,b   Yakoumakis, Emmanuel ^b   Orfanos, Filotheos ^a  

^a HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominoperineal resection; Anorectal melanoma; Lymphoscintigraphy; Sentinel lymph node; Wide local excision

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANORECTAL MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM POLYP; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 43249098118     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: 17905427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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