Indocyanine green fluorescence-navigated sentinel node biopsy showed higher sensitivity than the radioisotope or blue dye method, which may help to reduce false-negative cases in skin cancer

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-45

  Fujisawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Yasuhiro ^a   Kawachi, Yasuhiro ^a   Otsuka, Fujio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

False negative; Indocyanine green; Radioisotope; Sentinel node biopsy

Indexed keywords

EVANS BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE; INDOCYANINE GREEN; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLORING AGENTS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET DISEASE, EXTRAMAMMARY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROSANILINE DYES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWEAT GLAND NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84860327377     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23045     Document Type: Article

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