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Sentinel lymph node biopsy for gastrointestinal cancers
Author(s) -
Bembenek A.,
Gretschel S.,
Schlag P.M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.20863
Subject(s) - medicine , sentinel lymph node , biopsy , groin , gastrointestinal tract , lymph node , gastrointestinal cancer , lymph , cancer , colorectal cancer , radiology , oncology , breast cancer , surgery , pathology
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in gastrointestinal‐(GI)‐tract cancer is not yet of clinical relevance. Nevertheless, the results in the upper GI‐tract promise to be helpful to individualize the indication for surgical therapy. SLNB in colon cancer still fails to show high validity to predict the nodal status, but may be helpful to clarify the prognostic role of micrometastases/isolated tumor cells. In anal cancer SLNB is able to guide the indication for groin irradiation. J. Surg. Oncol. 2007;96:342–352. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.