title: Historical review of lymphatic mapping in gastrointestinal malignancies.
abstract: The advent of sentinel lymph node mapping (SLNM) has had a profound impact on the surgical management of breast cancer and melanoma over the past decade. However, SLNM in gastrointestinal malignancies is still in its infancy. The role of SLNM in gastrointestinal malignancies is to increase staging accuracy and to reduce the understaging associated with standard surgical and pathological techniques. Numerous authors have described the successful use of SLNM in colon, rectal, gastric, esophageal, and anal canal malignancies, with a high degree of accuracy and upstaging by detailed pathological analysis of the sentinel nodes. Over the past 2 years, research and publications related to gastrointestinal lymphatic mapping have dramatically increased worldwide.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Surgery, Michigan State University and McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, Michigan, USA. ssahadr@aol.com
authors.forename: Sukamal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saha
authors.forename: Adrian G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Dan
authors.forename: Anton J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bilchik
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: Elie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schochet
authors.forename: Sharan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choudhri
authors.forename: Lucille T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Saha
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wiese
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morton
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitajima
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D004396:Coloring Agents; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004322:Drainage; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012394:Rosaniline Dyes; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D013671:Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012394:Rosaniline Dyes; C025484:iso-sulfan blue; D013671:Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid