Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor

In a previous issue of the journal, Oldřich Coufal and Vuk Fait reported a pilot study that specifically addressed the use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer within a European population. They concluded that fluorescence method cannot currently be considered a m...

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Autor principal: Hidar, Samir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5368913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28347307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z
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description In a previous issue of the journal, Oldřich Coufal and Vuk Fait reported a pilot study that specifically addressed the use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer within a European population. They concluded that fluorescence method cannot currently be considered a method fully comparable with using radioisotopes in this setting. We consider that the absence of a learning curve, the low mean of retrieved sentinel nodes, and the possibility that migration of indocyanine green occurred after the initial biopsy limit the strength of their conclusion.
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spelling pubmed-53689132017-03-30 Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor Hidar, Samir World J Surg Oncol Correspondence In a previous issue of the journal, Oldřich Coufal and Vuk Fait reported a pilot study that specifically addressed the use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer within a European population. They concluded that fluorescence method cannot currently be considered a method fully comparable with using radioisotopes in this setting. We consider that the absence of a learning curve, the low mean of retrieved sentinel nodes, and the possibility that migration of indocyanine green occurred after the initial biopsy limit the strength of their conclusion. BioMed Central 2017-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5368913/ /pubmed/28347307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor
title Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor
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title_short Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5368913/
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