Impact of extended lymphadenectomy on morbidity and regional recurrence-free survival in melanoma patients.

Unlabelled: Introdurction: Current guidelines for malignant melanoma do not set a concrete cutoff limit for the number of lymph nodes to be resected during regional lymph node dissection (LND). Here, we investigate if extended LND (ext-LND) has an impact on surgical morbidity and oncological outcome in melanoma patients.

Material And Methods: A total of 245 melanoma patients receiving axillary or inguinal LND in curative intention were investigated retrospectively.

Morbidity and oncologic outcome after saphenous vein-sparing inguinal lymphadenectomy in melanoma patients.

Background: Inguinal lymph node dissection (LND) is a surgical procedure with a high morbidity rate. Variations in surgical procedure, such as sparing of the saphenous vein, have been proposed to reduce surgical morbidity. While sparing of the saphenous vein has shown promising results in earlier studies, data for this procedure in melanoma patients are rare.