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Historical review of lymphatic mapping in gastrointestinal malignancies

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The advent of sentinel lymph node mapping (SLNM) has had a profound impact on the surgical management of breast cancer and melanoma over the past decade. However, SLNM in gastrointestinal malignancies is still in its infancy. The role of SLNM in gastrointestinal malignancies is to increase staging accuracy and to reduce the understaging associated with standard surgical and pathological techniques. Numerous authors have described the successful use of SLNM in colon, rectal, gastric, esophageal, and anal canal malignancies, with a high degree of accuracy and upstaging by detailed pathological analysis of the sentinel nodes. Over the past 2 years, research and publications related to gastrointestinal lymphatic mapping have dramatically increased worldwide.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Michigan State University and McLaren Regional Medical Center, 48532, MI

    Sukamal Saha MD, FACS, FRCS(C), Adrian G. Dan MD, Elie Schochet MD, Sharan Choudhri MD, Lucille T. Saha MD, MPH & David Wiese MD, PhD

  2. Department of Surgery, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California

    Anton J. Bilchik MD, PhD & Donald Morton MD

  3. Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuko Kitagawa MD & Masaki Kitajima MD

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Saha, S., Dan, A.G., Bilchik, A.J. et al. Historical review of lymphatic mapping in gastrointestinal malignancies. Annals of Surgical Oncology 11 (Suppl 3), 245S–249S (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02523638

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