Nanoparticles as contrast agents for in-vivo bioimaging: current status and future perspectives

MA Hahn, AK Singh, P Sharma, SC Brown… - Analytical and …, 2011 - Springer
Nanoparticle-based contrast agents are quickly becoming valuable and potentially
transformative tools for enhancing medical diagnostics for a wide range of in-vivo imaging …

Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy for cutaneous melanoma

JE Gershenwald, MI Ross - New England Journal of Medicine, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
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Guidelines of care for the management of primary cutaneous melanoma

CK Bichakjian, AC Halpern, TM Johnson… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - Elsevier
The incidence of primary cutaneous melanoma has been increasing dramatically for several
decades. Melanoma accounts for the majority of skin cancer–related deaths, but treatment is …

[HTML][HTML] Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with melanoma: a meta-analysis

ME Valsecchi, D Silbermins, N De Rosa… - Database of Abstracts …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This review concluded that the estimated risk of nodal recurrence after a negative sentinel
lymph node biopsy was less than 5% and supported use of this technology for staging …

Intraoperative near-infrared fluorescence imaging for sentinel lymph node detection in vulvar cancer: first clinical results

LMA Crane, G Themelis, HJG Arts, KT Buddingh… - Gynecologic …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Disadvantages of the combined sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure with
radiocolloid and blue dye in vulvar cancer are the preoperative injections of radioactive …

Sentinel lymph node biopsy in the management of early-stage cervical carcinoma

JP Diaz, ML Gemignani, N Pandit-Taskar, KJ Park… - Gynecologic …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to determine the sentinel lymph node detection rates, accuracy in
predicting the status of lymph node metastasis, and if pathologic ultrastaging improves the …

Cancer trials versus the real world in the United States

WB Al-Refaie, SM Vickers, W Zhong, H Parsons… - Annals of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Background: Federal policies have been implemented to mitigate underenrollment in cancer
trials in the United States. We sought to identify patterns and predictors of enrollment …

SPECT/CT for sentinel lymph node mapping in head and neck melanoma

L Vermeeren, RA Valdés Olmos, WMC Klop… - Head & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background. The additional value of single photon emission computed tomography with CT
(SPECT/CT) for detection and localization of sentinel nodes in patients with a melanoma of …

Tumor location predicts survival in cutaneous head and neck melanoma

WH Tseng, SR Martinez - Journal of Surgical Research, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Prior studies documented poorer outcomes in patients with cutaneous
head and neck melanoma (CHNM) relative to those with melanoma at other sites. We …

Evidence‐based treatment of early‐stage melanoma

MI Ross, JE Gershenwald - Journal of surgical oncology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The vast majority of patients with newly diagnosed melanoma are “early‐stage”‐ie, clinically
localized to the primary cutaneous site. For such patients, surgery represents the mainstay of …