Implications of lymphatic drainage to un
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William E. Sumner III; Merrick I. Ross; Paul F. Mansfield; Jeffrey E. Lee; Victo
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Sentinel lymphadenectomy reliably identifies the first site(s) of regional lymphatic drainage and, therefore, the most likely lymph nodes to contain occult metastasis in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma. Although in most patients lymphatic drainage from the primar