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The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2014 June;58(2):161-79

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language: English

Uncommon applications of sentinel lymph node mapping: urogenital cancers

Giammarile F. ¹, Vidal-Sicart S. ², Valdés Olmos R. A. ³ ✉

¹ Nuclear Medicine Centre Hospitalier, Lyon Sud Biophysique, Lyon, France; ² CDI Nuclear Medicine Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ³ Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Beside the classical applications of sentinel lymph node mapping, some new procedures are emerging and showing feasibility and clinical utility. In this chapter, we will report on sentinel lymph node mapping in 1) malignancies of the female reproductive system (cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, vulvar cancer and ovarian cancer); 2) malignancies of the male reproductive system (prostate cancer, penile cancer and testicular cancer); 3) malignancies in kidney and bladder. This paper presents the uncommon applications of sentinel lymph node mapping in urogenital neoplasms.