High-resolution ultrasound combined with power doppler sonography can reduce the number of sentinel lymph node biopsies in cutaneous melanoma

Dermatology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 180-188

  Hinz, Torsten ^a   Wilsmann Theis, Dagmar ^a   Buchner, Andrea ^a   Wenzel, Joerg ^a   Wendtner, Clemens M ^b   Bieber, Thomas ^a   Reinhard, Guenter ^a   Baumert, Jens ^c   Schmid Wendtner, Monika H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous melanoma; High resolution ultrasound; Power Doppler sonography; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; POWER DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 79955697131     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325462     Document Type: Article

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