Sentinel lymph node biopsy. A prospective medical advance to substitute the pelvic lymphadenectomyin early cervical cancer. A reappraisal

Anastasios Pandraklakis, Nikolaos Thomakos, Ioannis Thanopoulos, Dimitrios Vlachos, Maria D. Oikonomou, Dimitrios Chaidopoulos, Alexandros Rodolakis

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in the female population and was the ninth cause of deaths in the female population in 2016. According to the American Cancer Society, 13240 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed in the USA in the year 2018, while 4170 women will die from the disease. Unfortunately,40% of them concern women younger than 45 years old in their reproductive age…

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The sentinel lymph node procedure in gynecologic oncology: Review of the literature

Kalogiannidis I, Xiromeritis P, Prapas Y, Prapas N

Lymphadenectomy contributes to the optimal staging and treatment of patients with gynecologic cancer. However, the former approach is not without adverse outcomes. The aim of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure, which is the first node involved by the tumor, is to detect the group of patients with positive SLN, who will benefit from the lymphadenectomy. On the other hand …

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