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LAPAROSCOPIC PELVIC LYMPHADENECTOMY FOR MALIGNANT MELANOMA
Author(s) -
Jones W. O.,
Cable R. L.,
Gilling P. J.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1995.tb00555.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dissection (medical) , malignancy , melanoma , lymphadenectomy , laparoscopy , lymph node , general surgery , laparoscopic surgery , surgery , prostate carcinoma , radiology , prostate , cancer , cancer research
Therapeutic laparoscopic techniques are well accepted in many areas of general surgery. The use of laparoscopy for the staging of malignancy, in a diagnostic role, is not used widely. Urologists use pelvic lymph node dissection (LPLND) to define those patients who are suitable for curative local therapy in carcinoma of the prostate. We present a case of a patient with metastatic malignant melanoma in whom LPLND was employed as a minimally invasive way of staging and treating her disease.