title: [Sentinel node biopsy in our department].
abstract: The author presents a group of two female patients with breast cancer and a male patient with malignant melanoma where mainly due to a borrowed scintillation tube combined with preoperative administration of methylene blue a sentinel node was successfully extirpated. The author analyzes the technical aspect of the biopsy. He is convinced that by combining the two methods its is within the powers of a district department to implement the method successfully.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgické oddĕlení Okresní nemocnice, Pelhrimov.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hruska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology