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Last updated: 02/17/2009
PERIODICALS
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Burrall, Barbara, and Vijay Khatri. "Still Debating Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy?"Dermatology Online Journal 7 (2):1 [April 22, 2003].
Fukui, Y., T. Yamakawa, T. Taniki, et al. "Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma."Cancer 92 (December 1, 2001): 2868-2874.
Golshan, M., W. J. Martin, and K. Dowlatshahi. "Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Lowers the Rate of Lymphedema When Compared with Standard Axillary Lymph Node Dissection."American Surgeon 69 (March 2003): 209-211.
McMasters, K. M., D. S. Reintgen, M. I. Ross et al. "Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma: Controversy Despite Widespread Agreement."Journal of Clinical Oncology 19 (June 1, 2001): 2851-2855.
Peley, C., E. Farkas, I. Sinkovics, et al. "Inguinal Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Staging Anal Cancer."Scandinavian Journal of Surgery 91 (2002): 336-338.
Port, E. R., J. V. Fey, H. S. Cody III, and P. I. Borgen. "Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Male Breast Carcinoma."Cancer 91 (January 15, 2001): 319-323.
Pow-Sang, Julio, MD. "The Spectrum of Genitourinary Malignancies."Cancer Control 9 (July-August 2002): 275-276.
Schmalbach, C. E., B. Nussenbaum, R. S. Rees, et al. "Reliability of Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping with Biopsy for Head and Neck Cutaneous Melanoma."Archives of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery 129 (January 2003): 61-65.
Tanis, Pieter J., Omgo E. Nieweg, Renato A. Valdés Olmos, et al. "History of Sentinel Node and Validation of the Technique."Breast Cancer Research 3 (2001): 109-112.
Uren, R. F., R. Howman-Giles, and J. F. Thompson. "Patterns of Lymphatic Drainage from the Skin in Patients with Melanoma."Journal of Nuclear Medicine 44 (April 2003): 570-582.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Cancer Society (ACS). (800) ACS-2345.
National Cancer Institute (NCI). NCI Public Inquiries Office, Suite 3036A, 6116 Executive Boulevard, MSC8332, Bethesda, MD 20892-8322. (800) 4-CANCER or (800) 332-8615 (TTY).
Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM). 1850 Samuel Morse Drive, Reston, VA 20190. (703) 708-9000.
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The sentinel lymph node is the hypothetical first lymph node or group of nodes reached by metastasizing cancer cells from a tumor.
The concept of the sentinel lymph node is important because of the advent of the sentinel lymph node biopsy technique, also known as a sentinel node procedure. This technique is used in the staging of certain types of cancer to see if they have spread to any lymph nodes, since lymph node metastasis is one of the most important prognostic signs.
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