Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Morton, NEJM 2006

Groups:
·       wide excision with SLNB (biopsy)
·       wide excision and observation of regional nodal basin (obs)
o   underwent delayed lymphadenectomy if nodal recurrences became clinically detectable

·       It’s an interim analysis of a multi-centre study comparing SLNB with clinical observation (q3 months) of the regional drainage basin.
·       Basically, the point is, SLNB good, observation bad because once these patients develop clinically evident disease, therapeutic resection at that point carries a higher mortality.

Link:

No comments:

Post a Comment