Historical review of lymphatic mapping in gastrointestinal malignancies.
Publication/Presentation Date
3-1-2004
Abstract
The advent of sentinel lymph node mapping (SLNM) has had a profound impact on the surgical management of breast cancer and melanoma over the past decade. However, SLNM in gastrointestinal malignancies is still in its infancy. The role of SLNM in gastrointestinal malignancies is to increase staging accuracy and to reduce the understaging associated with standard surgical and pathological techniques. Numerous authors have described the successful use of SLNM in colon, rectal, gastric, esophageal, and anal canal malignancies, with a high degree of accuracy and upstaging by detailed pathological analysis of the sentinel nodes. Over the past 2 years, research and publications related to gastrointestinal lymphatic mapping have dramatically increased worldwide.
Volume
11
Issue
3 Suppl
First Page
245
Last Page
245
ISSN
1068-9265
Published In/Presented At
Saha, S., Dan, A. G., Bilchik, A. J., Kitagawa, Y., Schochet, E., Choudhri, S., Saha, L. T., Wiese, D., Morton, D., & Kitajima, M. (2004). Historical review of lymphatic mapping in gastrointestinal malignancies. Annals of surgical oncology, 11(3 Suppl), 245S–9S. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02523638
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
15023761
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article