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What is lymphiscintigraphy?
Lymphoscintigraphy (sentinel lymph node mapping) is an imaging technique used to identify the lymph drainage basin, determine the number of sentinel nodes, differentiate sentinel nodes from subsequent nodes, locate the sentinel node in an unexpected location, and mark the sentinel node over the skin for biopsy.
What is sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy?
A new technique called sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy often eliminates the need for removing some or all lymph nodes by testing the first lymph node for cancer.
What is learned by the procedure known as sentinel node mapping?
These sentinel nodes are thus identifiable and are the most likely to harbor any regional metastatic disease. If these nodes alone are biopsied and are normal, the rest of the lymph node group can be spared.
When is a full resection of the lymph node group completed following a sentinel mapping procedure?
If they show microscopic deposits of tumor, then the full resection of the lymph node group may be completed.
What is sentinel node?
It is the first node in which the lymphatic drainage occura in a particular area.
A sentinel node is?
It is the first node in which the lymphatic drainage occura in a particular area.
What is a sentinel node?
It is the first node in which the lymphatic drainage occura in a particular area.
What distinguishes a sentinel node from other nodes?
A sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node that drains a cancer. If a cancer has not spread to the first draining lymph node near a cancer, there is a high likelihood it has not spread elsewhere.
What is the significance of sentinel lymph node?
A sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node that drains a cancer. If a cancer has not spread to the first draining lymph node near a cancer, there is a high likelihood it has not spread elsewhere.
Concern about resectioning regional lymph nodes has led to what intermediary procedure?
Questions related to which patients should have resection of regional lymph nodes have led to an intermediary procedure known as sentinel node mapping and biopsy.
What node biopsy is performed a the beginning of the treatment of breast cancer?
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Can you delete the head node from doubly linked list?
If by 'head node' you simply mean the first node, then yes; but if 'head node' means the special element which is not supposed to ever be deleted (aka sentinel node), then no.
