sentinel node

collocation in English

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sentinel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.tɪ.nəl/us
/ˈsen.t̬ɪ.nəl/
literary
a person employed 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 ofsentinelandnodefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Up to now, only limited information is available of the use ofsentinelnodebiopsies after preoperative chemotherapy.
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Should positivesentinelnodecases have a further axillary dissection?
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When thesentinelnodeis positive, a variety of factors need to be appreciated to make decisions regarding subsequent axillary dissection.
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On this background, of course, the introduction ofsentinelnodebiopsy has been possible, particularly as a method of avoiding axillary dissection entirely in patients that have negative sentinel nodes.
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Another method of determining breast cancer spread is to perform an endoscopic axillarysentinelnodebiopsy.
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Sentinelnodebiopsy can establish cancer staging of the axilla if there are positive lymph nodes present.
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It is sometimes called the signal node orsentinelnodefor the same reason.
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One may also use asentinelnodeat the end of the list, with an appropriate data field, to eliminate some end-of-list tests.
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If there is only onesentinelnode, then the list is circularly linked via thesentinelnode.
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Asentinelnodedoes not hold or reference any data managed by the data structure.
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Failure to detect cancer cells in thesentinelnodecan lead to a false negative result there may still be cancerous cells in the lymph node basin.
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The same trick can be used to simplify the handling of a doubly linked linear list, by turning it into a circular doubly linked list with a singlesentinelnode.
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If a node has fewer than two children, some of the child pointers may be set to a special null value, or to a specialsentinelnode.
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The beginning and ending nodes' previous and next links, respectively, point to some kind of terminator, typically asentinelnodeor null, to facilitate traversal of the list.
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However, sentinel nodes use up extra space (especially in applications that use many short lists), and they may complicate other operations (such as the creation of a new empty list).
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