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Radioguided Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping and Biopsy in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

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Mediastinal lymph node dissection is an integral part of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) surgical treatment. However, mediastinal lymph nodes are involved in less than 30 % of clinically stage I patients. Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping and biopsy has been proposed as an alternative to mediastinal lymph node dissection in NSCLC since 1999. Most studies thus far have used radiotracers for lymphatic mapping in NSCLC. Successful SLN mapping and biopsy needs careful selection of patients (only cN0 patients without history of chemotherapy) and proper administration route of the radiotracer (peri-tumoral is preferred over intra-tumoral injections). Alternative methods such as magnetic particles and fluorescent dyes seem to be very promising and need further validation studies in the future.

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Zarifmahmoudi, L., Krag, D.N., Sadeghi, R., Bagheri, R., Shafiee, S. (2016). Radioguided Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping and Biopsy in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). In: Herrmann, K., Nieweg, O., Povoski, S. (eds) Radioguided Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26051-8_20

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