Lymphatic drainage patterns from melanomas on the shoulder or upper trunk to cervical lymph nodes and implications for the extent of neck dissection

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3906-3912

  Veenstra, Hidde J ^a   Klop, W Martin C ^a,b   Speijers, Maarten J ^c   Lohuis, Peter J F M ^a,b   Nieweg, Omgo E ^a   Hoekstra, Harald J ^c   Balm, Alfons J M ^a,b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; AXILLA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CERVICAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIMB TUMOR; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SHOULDER; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRUNK; TRUNK MELANOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UPPER LIMB MELANOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SHOULDER; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TORSO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868157523     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2387-2     Document Type: Article

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