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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies in Melanoma: How Many Nodes Do We Really Need
Annals of Plastic Surgery, 04/18/08
Abou-Nukta F et al. - Removing only the hottest node is inadequate to detect lymphatic spread. On the other hand, removing the 3 hottest nodes and all visible blue nodes is sufficient to detect regional lymphatic spread in patients with cutaneous melanoma. Removing nodes with a radiotracer uptake less than 30% of the hottest nodes may be unnecessary.
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