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Hidar S. Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor. World J Surg Oncol. 2017;15(1):70doi: 10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z.
Hidar, S. (2017). Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor. World journal of surgical oncology, 15(1), 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z
Hidar, Samir. "Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor." World journal of surgical oncology vol. 15,1 (2017): 70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z
Hidar S. Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor. World J Surg Oncol. 2017 Mar 27;15(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z. PMID: 28347307; PMCID: PMC5368913.
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World J Surg Oncol. 2017 Mar 27;15(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z.

Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor.

World journal of surgical oncology

Samir Hidar

Affiliations

  1. F.Hached University Teaching Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia. [email protected].

PMID: 28347307 PMCID: PMC5368913 DOI: 10.1186/s12957-017-1138-z

Abstract

In a previous issue of the journal, Oldřich Coufal and Vuk Fait reported a pilot study that specifically addressed the use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer within a European population. They concluded that fluorescence method cannot currently be considered a method fully comparable with using radioisotopes in this setting. We consider that the absence of a learning curve, the low mean of retrieved sentinel nodes, and the possibility that migration of indocyanine green occurred after the initial biopsy limit the strength of their conclusion.

Keywords: Breast cancer; Indocyanine green; Sentinel node

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