Current status of sentinel node biopsy in urological malignancies
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Current status of sentinel node biopsy in urological malignancies
Like in most other malignancies the lymph node status is of outstanding prognostic relevance and an important tool for the determination of adjuvant strategies for urological tumor entities, too. Even in the era of PET/CT and MRI with iron oxid nano-particles the radiological imaging technology is strongly limited in cases of metastases smaller than 5 mm. Therefore only the operative lymph node...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1949-4998,1949-5005
DOI: 10.4236/health.2010.28126