The Characteristics of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Cutaneous Melanoma and the Particularities for Elderly Patients-Experience of a Single Clinic.
Florin-Teodor BobircaTiberiu TebeicăAdela PumneaDan DumitrescuCristina AlexandruLaura BanciuIonela Loredana PopaAnca BobircăMihaela LeventerTraian PătrașcuPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
The SLNB has a low rate of surgical complications and the positivity of SLN is not related to radiotracer load. Elderly patients are at risk for head and neck melanoma, have more advanced stages, a higher SLN positivity, and a greater rate of surgical complications.