Background To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of diagnosis using sentinel node (SN)
biopsy in T1 gastric cancer, a multicenter trial was conducted by the Japan Clinical …

BACKGROUND: We have reported that lymphatic mapping using indocyanine green (ICG)
solution can be a good tool for identifying sentinel nodes (SNs) in gastric cancer. The …

Purpose Complicated gastric lymphatic drainage potentially undermines the utility of
sentinel node (SN) biopsy in patients with gastric cancer. Encouraged by several favorable …

AIMS: To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of sentinel node (SN) biopsy for gastric
cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: One hundred patients with gastric cancer diagnosed as …

Background The clinical impact of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in gastric cancer is
controversial. We performed a prospective trial to compare different methods: radiocolloid …

Background. Sentinel node (SN) biopsy has been tried in the management of a variety of
cancers with the hope that it would eliminate many unnecessary lymph node dissections …

Background The results of sentinel node (SN) biopsy have been improved by the use of dye
and isotope double tracers in melanoma and breast cancer. However, the usefulness of this …

Background The possible application and validity of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) concept
in gastric cancer (GC) is still debated. A systematic review to evaluate the diagnostic value of …

Recent meta-analyses and a prospective multicenter trial of sentinel node (SN) mapping in
early gastric cancer have demonstrated acceptable SN detection rates and accuracy of …

Background Reliable indicators that can intraoperatively determine the absence of nodal
metastasis are in great demand to avoid unnecessary lymphadenectomy. However, little has …