The role of imaging and sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with T3b-T4b melanoma with clinically negative disease

BackgroundPrevious studies demonstrate minimal utility of pre-operative imaging for low-risk melanoma; however, imaging may be more critical for patients with high-risk disease. Our study evaluates the impact of peri-operative cross-sectional imaging in patients with T3b-T4b melanoma.MethodsPatients...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Oncology
Main Authors:	Marianna V. Papageorge, Renee M. Maina, Amber Loren O. King, Victor Lee, Raymond Baumann, Darko Pucar, Stephan Ariyan, Sajid A. Khan, Sarah A. Weiss, James Clune, Kelly Olino
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Subjects:	high-risk melanoma cross-sectional imaging surgical management sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy recurrence free survival
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1143354/full