title: Use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: letter to the editor.
abstract: In a previous issue of the journal, Oldřich Coufal and Vuk Fait reported a pilot study that specifically addressed the use of indocyanine green for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer within a European population. They concluded that fluorescence method cannot currently be considered a method fully comparable with using radioisotopes in this setting. We consider that the absence of a learning curve, the low mean of retrieved sentinel nodes, and the possibility that migration of indocyanine green occurred after the initial biopsy limit the strength of their conclusion.
authors.affiliation: F.Hached University Teaching Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia. hidarsamir@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Samir
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1267-3451
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hidar
keywords: Breast cancer; Indocyanine green; Sentinel node