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The two most important applications of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure in the head and neck region are melanoma and cancer of the oral cavity. The SLN status provides relevant prognostic information in patients with melanoma, and a positive sentinel node is also an unfavorable prognostic factor in oral cancer. Due to the poor sensitivity of modalities such as ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and the increased morbidity of elective lymph node dissection, the SLN procedure is emerging as the most promising modality to stage the clinical and radiological N0 neck.
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Valdés Olmos, R.A., Klop, W.M.C., Brouwer, O.R. (2013). Preoperative and Intraoperative Lymphatic Mapping for Radioguided Sentinel Node Biopsy in Head and Neck Cancers. In: Mariani, G., Manca, G., Orsini, F., Vidal-Sicart, S., Valdés Olmos, R.A. (eds) Atlas of Lymphoscintigraphy and Sentinel Node Mapping. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2766-4_11
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