title: Credentialing of nuclear medicine physicians, surgeons, and pathologists as a multidisciplinary team for selective sentinel lymphadenectomy.
abstract: There are several possible applications of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) concept with different technological aspects such as individualized surgical management of solid tumors, multidisciplinary treatments, and novel therapeutic approaches. To achieve these clinical applications, multidisciplinary teamwork with surgeons, nuclear medicine physicians, and pathologists would be critically required. Interdisciplinary issues should be resolved in order to develop optimal standard procedures of SLN dissection for various solid tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitajima
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Makio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mukai
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kubo
mesh_terms: D003406:Credentialing; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000379:methods*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals