Sentinel lymph node evaluation in melanoma

In Vivo Evaluation of Melanoma Thickness by Multispectral Imaging and An Artificial Neural Network. A Retrospective Study on 250 Cases of Cutaneous Melanoma

“…Tumor thickness is the most important predictor of survival in patients with localized cutaneous melanoma 1 . Moreover, the criterion is commonly used to establish the size of the surgical margins 2,3 and to select patients for sentinel lymph node biopsy 4,5 .…”

Anapylaxis to Patent Blue

“…Thus, anaphylactic reactions to patent blue appear to be rare these days. This the advent of the modern management of patients with high-risk melanoma as well as other cancers such as breast cancer for which sentinel lymph node identification by patent blue is one of the proposed procedures [7], anaphylaxis to this dye may become again more frequent. Here, we report a case of severe anaphylaxis to patent blue.…”