Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Annals of Surgical Oncology
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology 6/2008

Open Access 01-06-2008 | Melanomas

Cutaneous Melanoma and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Authors: A. C. J. van Akkooi, MSc, J. H. W. de Wilt, MD, PhD, C. Verhoef, MD, A. M. M. Eggermont, MD, PhD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 6/2008

Login to get access

Excerpt

To the Editors: …
Literature
1.
Akkooi AC, Bouwhuis MG, de Wilt JH, et al. Multivariable analysis comparing outcome after sentinel node biopsy or therapeutic lymph node dissection in patients with melanoma. Br J Surg 2007;94:1293–9PubMedCrossRef
2.
Koskivuo I, Talve L, Vihinen P, et al. Sentinel lymph node biopsy in cutaneous melanoma: a case-control study. Ann Surg Oncol 2007;14:3566–74PubMedCrossRef
3.
van Akkooi AC, Nowecki ZI, Voit C, et al. Prognosis depends on micro-anatomic patterns of melanoma micrometastases within the sentinel node (SN). A multicenter study in 388 SN positive patients. Eur J Cancer - Supplements 2007;5:397: abstract 7006
4.
van Akkooi AC, de Wilt JH, Verhoef C, Schmitz PI, et al. Clinical relevance of melanoma micrometastases (<0.1 mm) in sentinel nodes: are these nodes to be considered negative? Ann Oncol 2006;17:1578–85PubMedCrossRef
5.
Scheri RP, Essner R, Turner RR, et al. Isolated tumor cells in the sentinel node affect long-term prognosis of patients with melanoma. Ann Surg Oncol 2007;14:2861–6PubMedCrossRef
6.
Starz H, Balda BR, Kramer KU, et al. A micromorphometry-based concept for routine classification of sentinel lymph node metastases and its clinical relevance for patients with melanoma. Cancer 2001;91:2110–21PubMedCrossRef
7.
Voit CA, van Akkooi ACJ, Schaefer-Hesterberg G, et al. Reduction of need for operative sentinel node procedure in melanoma patients: fifty percent identification rate of sentinel node positivity by ultrasound (US)-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in 400 consecutive patients. Eur J Cancer - Supplements 2007;5:11: abstract 3BACrossRef
Metadata
Title
Cutaneous Melanoma and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
Authors
A. C. J. van Akkooi, MSc
J. H. W. de Wilt, MD, PhD
C. Verhoef, MD
A. M. M. Eggermont, MD, PhD
Publication date
01-06-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 6/2008
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-008-9824-2

Other articles of this Issue 6/2008

Annals of Surgical Oncology 6/2008 Go to the issue

Gastrointestinal Oncology

Esophageal Cancers with Synchronous or Antecedent Head and Neck Cancers: A More Formidable Challenge?

Gastrointestinal Oncology

Detection of Sentinel Node in Gastric Cancer Surgery by Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Imaging: Comparison with Infrared Imaging

Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Resectable Well-Differentiated versus Dedifferentiated Liposarcomas: Two Different Diseases Possibly Requiring Different Treatment Approaches

Healthcare Policy and Outcomes

Postoperative Mortality After Esophagectomy for Cancer: Development of a Preoperative Risk Prediction Model

Gastrointestinal Oncology

Significance of the Lymph Node Ratio in Stage III Colon Cancer

Breast Oncology

Prophylactic Surgery in the Complex Decision-Making Management of BRCA Mutation Carriers