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G E Piérard1, J E Arrese, C Piérard-Franchimont
1Service de Dermatopathologie, Université de Liège.
Revue Medicale De Liege
|April 11, 2001
Abstract:
The development of new therapeutic protocols for malignant melanoma calls for an upgraded assessment of the individual risk to develop metastases. The predictive sentinel lymph node method is best practiced in a multidisciplinary approach. The selective lymphadenectomy of the first draining lymph node is followed by minutely detailed histologic examination combined with immunohistochemistry.