Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

Mayo Clinic Q&A: A look at the advances in staging and surgical treatment of melanoma.

In the trials that served to establish the SLNB procedure, the false-negative rate varied between 5.5% and 16.7%, and the lowest false-negative rates were from studies in which preoperative ...

Since its introduction by Morton in 1992 (Morton et al, 1992) sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has become a standard procedure in the staging and treatment of primary melanoma ⩾1 mm tumour thickness ...