Bilateral Negative Sentinel Nodes Accurately Predict Absence of Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Cervical Cancer: Results of the SENTICOL Study

Fabrice Lécuru, Patrice Mathevet, Denis Querleu, Éric Leblanc, Philippe Morice, Émile Daraï, H. Marret, Laurent Magaud, Florence Gillaizeau, Gilles Châtellier,

Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2011 · 448 citations · 27 references

Abstract

Combined labeling for node mapping was associated with high rates of SLN detection and with high sensitivity and NPV for metastasis detection. However, SLN biopsy was fully reliable only when SLNs were detected bilaterally.

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