Publications by authors named "Cristina Paschetta"
Article Synopsis
- The review discusses sentinel node mapping in head and neck cancers, focusing on its effectiveness and implementation in different types of neoplasms.
- It highlights lymphatic drainage, injection techniques, and the detection rates of sentinel nodes using lymphoscintigraphy, noting that cutaneous neoplasms show over 90% detection rates but face challenges with false negatives, especially in melanoma.
- For upper aerodigestive tract cancers, sentinel node identification can help avoid unnecessary treatments, but issues with false negatives persist, and further multicenter studies are needed to validate findings, especially for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers.
Gynecologic cancers are one of the most important causes of women death worldwide. The sentinel lymph node concept was introduced by Cabanas in 1977 for the penile cancer. This technique was proven safe and feasible in selected cancers such as breast cancer, melanoma, or some gynecologic cancers.
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