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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Annals of Surgery, 4(239), p. 544-552, 2004

DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000118570.26997.a1

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Correlation Between Preoperative Lymphoscintigraphy and Metastatic Nodal Disease Sites in 362 Patients With Cutaneous Melanomas of the Head and Neck

Journal article published in 2004 by Johannes H. W. de Wilt, John F. Thompson, Roger F. Uren, Vivian S. K. Ka, Richard A. Scolyer, William H. McCarthy, Christopher J. O'Brien, Christopher J. O??Brien, Michael J. Quinn, Kerwin F. Shannon ORCID
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Abstract

Lymphoscintigrams demonstrated sentinel nodes in nonpredicted (discordant) sites in 114 of 362 head and neck melanoma patients (31.5%). Seven of 51 patients with regional node metastases (13.7%) had involvement in a discordant site. It is concluded that all sentinel nodes should be removed and examined to obtain reliable prognostic information.