Sentinel lymph node biopsy in a young child with thick cutaneous melanoma.
Head and neck melanoma is a rare and aggressive childhood malignancy. Surgery remains the primary treatment, with lymphatic involvement determined by neck dissection. In the adult population, sentinel lymph node biopsy has emerged as a less morbid yet accurate method of staging regional lymph nodes. This innovative technique can also be used in the pediatric population.
Bisseck
Marc
M
General Surgery Resident PGY4, Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
Shen
Perry
P
Pranikoff
Thomas
T
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery