Prospective evaluation of sentinel node navigation surgery in Japanese patients with low-risk endometrial cancer —safety and occurrence of lymphedema

ConclusionSentinel lymph node biopsy alone with intraoperative histopathological diagnosis appears to be a safe and effective strategy to detect lymph node metastasis and to reduce the number of patients with lower-extremity lymphedema among patients with endometrial cancer.
Source: Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research