sentinel lymph node

collocation in English

meaningsofsentinel,lymphandnode

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sentinel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tɪ.nəl/us
/ˈsen.t̬ɪ.nəl/
literary
a person employed to ...
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lymph
noun[U]
uk
/lɪmf/us
/lɪmf/
a clear liquid that transports useful substances around the body, and carries waste matter, such as unwanted bacteria, away from body tissue in order to ...
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node
noun[C]
uk
/nəʊd/us
/noʊd/
biology
a place where a leaf and stem join on ...
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(Definition ofsentinel,lymphandnodefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Radioguidance for nonpalpable primary lesions andsentinellymphnode(s).
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Thesentinellymphnode is the first lymph node that receives lymph flow from a primary tumor.
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It appears thatsentinellymphnode biopsy for clinically node negative patients can be performed after the initiation of chemotherapy.
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However, the role ofsentinellymphnode biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is still controversial.
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The usual identification rate of thesentinellymphnode is greater than 85 percent, whereas false-negative analyses are generally less than 10 percent.
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The patient recovered uneventfully from her surgical excision andsentinellymphnode biopsy.
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Concordance and validation study ofsentinellymphnode biopsy for breast cancer using subareolar injection of blue dye and technetium 99 m sulfur colloid.
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Shouldsentinellymphnode biopsy be performed before or after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
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For example, shouldsentinellymphnode biopsy or axillary lymph node dissection be done before or after the initiation of chemotherapy?
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The safety ofsentinellymphnode biopsy in pregnancy is unknown.
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Surgical resection and radiolocalization of thesentinellymphnode in breast cancer using a gamma probe.
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Preparing the "soil": the primary tumor induces vasculature reorganization in thesentinellymphnode before the arrival of metastatic cancer cells.
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Patients will benefit because of the well-controlled use of thesentinellymphnode mapping and the avoidance of unnecessary axillary dissection.
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Therefore, additional significant disease may remain in the axilla after a positivesentinellymphnode.
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Over 200 patients in each group did not have axillary dissection orsentinellymphnode biopsy.
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Intraoperative tumour localisation is carried out searching for the maximal radioactivity by gamma-probe designed forsentinellymphnode localisation.
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Biopsy method and excision volume do not affect success rate of subsequentsentinellymphnode dissection in breast cancer.
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If this hypothesis is correct, women withsentinellymphnodes found on careful histopathologic analysis to be negative may be spared the morbidity of axillary lymph node dissection.
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Sentinellymphnode dissection has a role in establishing staging of patients and determining prognosis.
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