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Background and Objectives
Current literature may overestimate the risk of nodal metastasis from thin melanoma due to reporting of data only from lesions treated with SLNB. Our objective was to define the natural history of thin melanoma, assessing the likelihood of nodal disease, in order to guide selection for SLNB.
Methods
Retrospective review. The primary outcome was the rate of nodal disease...
BACKGROUND:Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has emerged as a widely used staging procedure for cutaneous melanoma. However, debate remains around the accuracy and prognostic implications of SLNB for cutaneous melanoma arising in the head and neck, as previous reports have demonstrated inferior results to those in nonhead and neck regions. Through the largest single‐institution series of head and...
BackgroundFor melanoma patients with a positive axillary SLN, the extent of ALND remains controversial, with debate over whether a level III dissection is needed.
MethodsWe queried our IRB approved prospective database for patients with a positive axillary SLN who had a level I/II dissection only, and compared recurrence and complication rates to the existing literature.
ResultsBetween 1998 and...
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