Answer questions and earn CME/CNE Cancer metastasis may be regarded as a
progressive process from its inception in the primary tumor microenvironment to distant sites …

BACKGROUND: The current recommendation for patients with cutaneous melanoma and a
positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is a complete lymph node dissection (CLND) …

Purpose Prognosis in patients with sentinel node (SN)–positive melanoma correlates with
several characteristics of the metastases in the SN such as size and site. These factors …

Purpose We and others have demonstrated that additional positive lymph nodes (LNs) are
identified in only 8% to 33% of patients with melanoma who have positive sentinel LNs …

Purpose Sentinel node (SN) biopsy allows identification of patients with melanoma at risk of
further metastatic disease in regional non-sentinel nodes (NSN). We investigated …

Background Although widely used for the management of patients with cutaneous
melanoma, the sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy (SNB) procedure raises several issues …

Objectives To determine the rate and clinicopathologic factors predictive of sentinel lymph
node (SLN) positivity, regional lymph node recurrence, and survival in a large series of …

Assessment of sentinel lymph node status is an important step in the evaluation of patients
with melanoma for both prognosis and therapeutic management. Pathologists have an …

Purpose A worldwide web-based survey was conducted among melanoma surgeons to
investigate opinions about completion lymph node dissection (CLND) in patients with …

BACKGROUND: Histologic parameters of melanoma deposits in sentinel lymph nodes
(SLNs) have been shown to be predictive of clinical outcome and the presence or absence …