Association between sentinel lymph node excision with or without preoperative SPECT/CT and metastatic node detection and disease-free survival in melanoma
- Stoffels, Ingo
- Boy, Christian
- Pöppel, Thorsten
- Kuhn, Jasna
- Klötgen, Kerstin
- Dissemond, Joachim
- Schadendorf, Dirk
- Klode, Joachim
Publication date
January 2012
DOI Publisher
American Medical Association (AMA) ISSN
0098-7484 Citation count (estimate)
68Abstract
Malignant melanoma has become an increasing interdisciplinary public health challenge worldwide. Sentinel lymph node excision (SLNE) is considered the most sensitive and specific staging test for the detection of micrometastatic melanoma in regional lymph nodes
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