Sentinel Lymph Node

"Sentinel Lymph Node" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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First lymph node to receive drainage from the primary tumor. SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY is performed to determine early METASTASIS status because cancer cells may appear first in the sentinel node.

Descriptor ID	D000071036
MeSH Number(s)	A10.549.400.750 A15.382.520.604.412.750
Concept/Terms	Sentinel Lymph Node Sentinel Lymph Node Lymph Node, Sentinel Lymph Nodes, Sentinel Sentinel Lymph Nodes Sentinal Node Node, Sentinal Nodes, Sentinal Sentinal Nodes

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sentinel Lymph Node".

Anatomy [A]
Tissues [A10]
Lymphoid Tissue [A10.549]
Lymph Nodes [A10.549.400]
Sentinel Lymph Node [A10.549.400.750]
Hemic and Immune Systems [A15]
Immune System [A15.382]
Lymphatic System [A15.382.520]
Lymphoid Tissue [A15.382.520.604]
Lymph Nodes [A15.382.520.604.412]
Sentinel Lymph Node [A15.382.520.604.412.750]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2016	1	0	1
2018	1	0	1
2020	1	1	2

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Switalla KM, Boughey JC, Dimitroff K, Yau C, Ladores V, Yu H, Tchou J, Golshan M, Ahrendt G, Postlewait LM, Piltin M, Reyna CR, Matsen CB, Tuttle TM, Wallace AM, Arciero CA, Lee MC, Tseng J, Son J, Rao R, Sauder C, Naik A, Howard-McNatt M, Lancaster R, Norwood P, Esserman LJ, Mukhtar RA. Clipping the Positive Lymph Node in Patients with Clinically Node Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Impact on Axillary Surgery in the ISPY-2 Clinical Trial. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Oct; 31(11):7249-7259.

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Chung SH, de Geus SWL, Shewmaker G, Romatoski KS, Drake FT, Ko NY, Merrill AL, Hirsch AE, Tseng JF, Sachs TE, Cassidy MR. Axillary Lymph Node Dissection is Associated with Improved Survival Among Men with Invasive Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Metastasis. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Sep; 30(9):5610-5618.

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de Carvalho CEB, Capuzzo R, Crovador C, Teixeira RJ, Laus AC, Carvalho AL, Vazquez VL. Near Infrared (NIR) Fluorescence is Not a Substitute for Lymphoscintigraphy and Gamma Probe for Melanoma Sentinel Node Detection: Results from a Prospective Trial. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020 Aug; 27(8):2906-2912.

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Tucker K, Staley SA, Gehrig PA, Soper JT, Boggess JF, Ivanova A, Rossi E. Defining the learning curve for successful staging with sentinel lymph node biopsy for endometrial cancer among surgeons at an academic institution. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2020 03; 30(3):346-351.

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Sethi RKV, Abt NB, Remenschneider A, Wang Y, Emerick KS. Value of SPECT/CT for Sentinel Lymph Node Localization in the Parotid and External Jugular Chain. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018 11; 159(5):866-870.

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Montironi R, Lopez-Beltran A, Cheng L, Gasparrini S, Montironi MA, Massari F, Scarpelli M, Montorsi F. Re: Kenneth A. Iczkowski's Letter to the Editor re: Re: Rodolfo Montironi, Silvia Gasparrini, Roberta Mazzucchelli, et al's Letter to the Editor re: Karim A. Touijer, James A. Eastham. The Sentinel Lymph Node Concept and Novel Approaches in Detecting Lymph Node Metastasis in Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 2016;70:738-9: Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Adipose Tissue Surrounding the Prostate Gland and Seminal Vesicles as Observed in Virtual Whole-mount Histologic Slides. Eur Urol 2017;71:e73-5. Eur Urol. 2017 08; 72(2):e37-e38.

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Dinh KH, Harris AF, LaFemina J, Whalen GF, Sullivan M, Licho R, Hill T, Lambert LA. Advantages of day-before lymphoscintigraphy and undiluted methylene blue dye injections for sentinel lymph node biopsies for melanoma. J Surg Oncol. 2016 Dec; 114(8):947-950.

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Montironi R, Gasparrini S, Mazzucchelli R, Massari F, Cheng L, Lopez-Beltran A, Montorsi F, Scarpelli M. Re: Karim A. Touijer, James A. Eastham. The Sentinel Lymph Node Concept and Novel Approaches in Detecting Lymph Node Metastasis in Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 2016;70:738-9: Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Adipose Tissue Surrounding the Prostate Gland and Seminal Vesicles as Observed in Virtual Whole-mount Histologic Slides. Eur Urol. 2017 02; 71(2):e73-e75.

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