Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy

Melanoma of the penis is an uncommon cancer. We present the case of a 73-year-old male with penile melanoma and non palpable lymph nodes. Lymphoscintigraphy was applied to locate the sentinel lymph nodes for dissection. His lymph nodes were negative for melanoma and he has been disease-free for 1 ye...

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Autores principales: Tu, William H., Johnson, Denise, Gill, Harcharan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21116368
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.70587
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description Melanoma of the penis is an uncommon cancer. We present the case of a 73-year-old male with penile melanoma and non palpable lymph nodes. Lymphoscintigraphy was applied to locate the sentinel lymph nodes for dissection. His lymph nodes were negative for melanoma and he has been disease-free for 1 year with careful surveillance.
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spelling pubmed-29784482010-11-29 Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy Tu, William H. Johnson, Denise Gill, Harcharan Indian J Urol Case Report Melanoma of the penis is an uncommon cancer. We present the case of a 73-year-old male with penile melanoma and non palpable lymph nodes. Lymphoscintigraphy was applied to locate the sentinel lymph nodes for dissection. His lymph nodes were negative for melanoma and he has been disease-free for 1 year with careful surveillance. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2978448/ /pubmed/21116368 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.70587 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
title Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
title_full Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
title_fullStr Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
title_full_unstemmed Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
title_short Melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
title_sort melanoma of the penis with scintigraphically-guided sentinel node biopsy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21116368
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.70587
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