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- Title
Clinical considerations on sentinel node biopsy in melanoma from an Italian multicentric study on 1,313 patients (SOLISM-IMI).
- Authors
Testori, Alessandro; De Salvo, Gian Luca; Montesco, Maria Cristina; Trifirò, Giuseppe; Mocellin, Simone; Landi, Giorgio; Macripò, Giuseppe; Carcoforo, Paolo; Ricotti, Giuseppe; Giudice, Giuseppe; Picciotto, Franco; Donner, Davide; Di Filippo, Franco; Soteldo, Javier; Casara, Dario; Schiavon, Mauro; Vecchiato, Antonella; Pasquali, Sandro; Baldini, Federica; Mazzarol, Giovanni; Rossi, Carlo Riccardo; Italian Melanoma Intergroup
- Abstract
Although widely used for the management of patients with cutaneous melanoma, the sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy (SNB) procedure raises several issues. This study was designed to investigate: the predictive factors of SLN status, the false-negative (FN) rate, and patients' prognosis after SNB.
- Publication
Annals of surgical oncology, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 7, p2018
- ISSN
1534-4681
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1245/s10434-008-0273-8