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Sentinel lymph node biopsy in a young child with thick cutaneous melanoma
Marc Bisseck1, Perry Shen, Thomas Pranikoff
1General Surgery Resident PGY4, Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
Oncology (Williston Park, N.Y.)
|July 31, 2003
Abstract:
Head and neck melanoma is a rare and aggressive childhood malignancy. Surgery remains the primary treatment, with lymphatic involvement determined by neck dissection. In the adult population, sentinel lymph node biopsy has emerged as a less morbid yet accurate method of staging regional lymph nodes. This innovative technique can also be used in the pediatric population.