ii Faculty The objective of this course is to teach the indications, techniques, and theoretical concepts of lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer and melanoma. After participating in this course, surgeons should be able to begin to perform and evaluate lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy with blue dye, radio-isotope, or a combination of both. The histopathologic m...

Conjunctival melanoma (CoM) is a rare and aggressive form of melanoma. There is a lack of consensus on a unified management plan for this disease. Recently, a few centers have adopted the regional sentinel lymph node biopsy into the staging process of CoM. This study presents a critical assessment of the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in CoM and presents a simplified management algorithm ba...

This study compares sentinel lymph-node biopsy carried out at the time of removal of the primary breast tumour, under general anaesthetic, with sentinel lymph-node biopsy carried out under local anaesthetic prior to the main operation. It compares the total cost of the two treatment approaches, in terms of average income and of their impact on the subsequent programming of operations and hence ...

BACKGROUND The development of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer disease and the increasing of using adjuvant systemic therapy provide a rational reduction of axillary dissection in patients with Sentinel Lymph Nodes free from breast cancer cells. The aim of our study was to assess the state of the perisentinel lymph nodes removed and how these nodes can provide further information abo...

Axillary clearance provides important prognostic information but is associated with significant morbidity. Sentinel node biopsy can provide staging .141 patients with node negative early breast cancers-tumour size less than 1.5 cm measured clinically or by imaging had guided axillary sampling (sentinel lymph node biopsy in combination with axillary sampling). Four node axillary sampling improve...

OBJECTIVE To define the percentage of positive sentinel lymph node biopsies and identify risk factors for the presence of lymph node disease in patients with melanomas less than or equal to 1 mm in depth. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo, a melanoma referral center with outpatient surgical care. PA...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy has been developed as the standard of treatment in breast cancer. Status of axillary sentinel lymph node is known to be a significant prognostic factor. Nevertheless, involvement of an intramammary lymph node with metastasis in breast cancer is a rare radiological and clinical presentation, and with extracapsular extravasation even more uncommon. Historically, reporte...

AIM To define the sentinel node identification rate in breast cancer, the chronological evolution of this parameter and the influence of the introduction of a portable gamma camera. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study was conducted using a prospective database of 754 patients who had undergone a sentinel lymph node biopsy between January 2003 and December 2011. The technique was mixed ...