Open AccessClinical Significance of Microscopic Melanoma Metastases in the Nonhottest Sentinel Lymph Nodes
Author(s) -
Su Luo,
Alice Z.C. Lobo,
Kenneth K. Tanabe,
Alona Muzikansky,
Tyler Durazzo,
Arthur J. Sober,
Hensin Tsao,
A. Benedict Cosimi,
Donald P. Lawrence,
Lyn M. Duncan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.3843
Subject(s) - medicine , lymph , sentinel lymph node , melanoma , lymph node , sentinel node , radiology , pathology , cancer , cancer research , breast cancer
A practice gap exists in the surgical removal of sentinel lymph nodes, from removal of only the most radioactive (hottest) lymph node to removal of all lymph nodes with radioactivity greater than 10% of the hottest lymph node.
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