Intraoperative radiolymphoscintigraphy improves sentinel lymph node identification for patients with melanoma

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-224

  Albertini, John J ^a   Wayne Cruse, C ^a   Rapaport, David ^a   Wells, Karen ^a   Ross, Merrick ^b   Deconti, Ronald ^a   Berman, Claudia G ^a   Jared, Karen ^a   Messina, Jane ^a   Lyman, Gary ^a   Glass, Frank ^a   Fenske, Neil ^a   Reintgen, Douglas S ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DISULFINE BLUE; FUCHSINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; SCINTISCANNING; SKIN TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; ROSANILINE DYES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 9044254119     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199602000-00016     Document Type: Article

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