2011/05/04 by Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, Merrick I. Ross · 1 citation
Medicine · Engineering · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management #Optical Coherence Tomography Applications #Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications #Medicine #Sentinel lymph node #Biopsy #Melanoma #Sentinel node #Lymph node #Radiology #Lymph #Pathology #Cancer #Breast cancer #Internal medicine #Cancer research
paper · doi:10.1056/nejmct1002967
openalex publication_date 2011/05/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In a patient with cutaneous melanoma, a sentinel-lymph-node biopsy is performed with the aid of a handheld gamma scanner and the use of isosulfan blue dye. The nodes are dissected as a group and then separated in preparation for histologic analysis.