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Sentinel node mapping for malignant melanoma
M Landra1, F Acchiardi, F Pugno
1First Department of General Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Croce, Cuneo, Italy. landra.m@scroce.sanitacn.it
Tumori
|October 4, 2000
Abstract:
Sixty-seven patients with malignant melanomas were seen in our institute since 1998. We looked for a sentinel node in 26 (38%) patients with lesions thicker than 1 mm, employing a double technique: staining with methylene blue and gamma probe mapping after injection of 99mTc. Forty-six nodes were retrieved, 25% of them containing tumor cells. This approach enabled us to choose between a wait-and-see policy and radical surgery.