Navdeep R Sayal, Jeffrey Schafer, Christopher Jayne, Ansar Wali, Robert Lindau, Harlan Sayles, Alissa Marr, Sarah Aurit, William Lydiatt, Andrew Holcomb, Oleg Militsakh, Andrew Coughlin, Angela Osmolak, Aru Panwar
The objective of the study is to compare sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification rates and performance characteristics of lymphoscintigraphy using 99m Tc-sulfur colloid (SC) and 99m Tc-tilmanocept (TL) for head and neck cutaneous melanoma. This study is a retrospective study, conducted at a single, tertiary care cancer center. Patients underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for head and neck cutaneous melanoma, using SC or TL, between October 2014 and February 2019. Differences in SLN identification rates and performance characteristics between the groups were examined using the Mann-Whitney, or Fisher's exact test...
March 2024: Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology