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16690018

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-3
pubmed:abstractText
Anorectal melanoma is a rare condition and its surgical management is controversial. This article reports the case of a patient with anorectal melanoma who underwent abdominoperineal resection and Sentinel Lymph Node biopsy. Melanoma was classified pT4aN0. Fifty months after initial treatment, the patient is still alive disease free. SLN mapping allows better surgical excision of the presumed sites of the lymphatic dissemination in melanoma. SLN biopsy improve the accuracy of nodal staging. In case of sentinel node metastasis, it allows early therapeutic lymphadenectomy of the sentinel nodes's basin and could therefore reduce the high rate of regional recurrence in anorectal melanoma. Moreover, knowing the exact histological status of the regional nodes means that the relative merits of abdominoperineal resection and wild local excision could be compared in relation to tumor thickness.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0003-3944
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
131
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
550-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
[Sentinel node mapping in anorectal melanoma].
pubmed:affiliation
Service de chirurgie générale, hôpital Nord, CHU Saint-Etienne, 42055 Saint-Etienne cedex 02, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports