Editorial

Preoperative lymphoscintigraphy and triangulated patient body marking are important parts of the sentinel node process in breast cancer

Borys R Krynyckyi , Suk Chul Kim and Chun K Kim

Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA

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World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2005, 3:56doi:10.1186/1477-7819-3-56

Published:	24 August 2005

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Failure to visualize or correctly visualize sentinel nodes (SN) during preoperative lymphoscintigraphy (LS) is a frustrating problem. Most of these instances occur due to inexperience in performing the studies, and can be realized and corrected with the use of proper technique, even in centers that do not have state of art equipment. This is now becoming a major issue, as more and more sentinel node biopsies are being performed, and will increasingly gain more importance once sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) becomes the standard of care in patients with breast cancer world wide.