Open AccessUse of methylene blue dye for sentinel lymph node mapping in early-stage gynecological cancers – An option for low resource settings
Author(s) -
Nisha Singh,
Shuchi Agrawal
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_746_21
Subject(s) - medicine , endometrial cancer , vulvar cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , sentinel lymph node , cervix , cervical cancer , methylene blue , metastasis , lymphovascular invasion , lymph , cancer , radiology , surgery , pathology , breast cancer , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , photocatalysis , biology , catalysis
Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping is a standard of care in gynecological cancers but with limited resources and equipment, intraoperative use of methylene blue for SLN mapping may be more useful.