Effect of delay between nuclear medicine scanning and sentinel node biopsy on outcome in patients with cutaneous melanoma.

Marc D S MoncrieffF M O'LearyC J BeadsmooreD PawarooM J HeatonK IsakssonR Olofsson Bagge

Published in: The British journal of surgery (2020)

Delaying SLNB beyond 12 h after lymphoscintigraphy with 99 Tc-labelled nanocolloid has a significant negative survival impact in patients with melanoma.

Keyphrases

skin cancer
lymph node
high resolution
sentinel lymph node
ultrasound guided
basal cell carcinoma
fine needle aspiration
electron microscopy
early stage
mass spectrometry