ReviewAnnals of gastroenterological surgery2019
Sentinel node navigation surgery in esophageal cancer.
Review in Annals of gastroenterological surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery for Upper Gastrointestinal Malignancies: Current Status, Clinical Significance, and Future Perspectives.Magyar onkologia · 2026Review
- Advances in Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy-An Overview of Recent Developments and a Novel Classification of Innovations in Treatment of Thoracic Esophageal Cancer.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- History and evidence for state of the art of lymphadenectomy in esophageal cancer surgery.Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus · 2024Review
- The different routes of lymph node metastases in esophageal cancer and its significance.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Feasibility and Safety of Tailored Lymphadenectomy Using Sentinel Node-Navigated Surgery in Patients with High-Risk T1 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma.Annals of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- Prognostic relevance of tumor-resident memory T cells in metastatic lymph nodes of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Cancer science · 2023Article
- Feasibility of sentinel node navigated surgery in high-risk T1b esophageal adenocarcinoma patients using a hybrid tracer of technetium-99 m and indocyanine green.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
- Current status and challenges in sentinel node navigation surgery for early gastric cancer.Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2021Article
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- Past, present, and future of three-field lymphadenectomy for thoracic esophageal cancer.Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2020Review
- Sentinel node mapping for post-endoscopic resection gastric cancer: multicenter retrospective cohort study in Japan.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2020Article
- Assessment of Nonradioactive Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomographic Imaging With Conventional Lymphoscintigraphic Imaging for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Melanoma.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- Sentinel node navigation surgery in esophageal cancer.Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2019Review
- Indocyanine green fluorescence imaging via endoscopic nasal biliary drainage during laparoscopic deroofing of liver cysts.Journal of minimal access surgeryArticle
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Abstract
Over the last 20 years, the sentinel node (SN) concept has been widely applied to the surgical staging of both breast cancer and melanoma. However, the validity of this concept has been controversial for esophageal cancer, because SN mapping for esophageal cancer is not considered to be technically easy because of the complicated multidirectional lymphatic networks of the esophagus and mediastinum. Nevertheless, studies including meta-analyses indicated that SN mapping may be feasible in early esophageal cancer. Transthoracic esophagectomy with three-field lymphadenectomy was developed as a potential curative procedure for thoracic esophageal cancer. However, this highly invasive procedure might increase morbidity and reduce patients' quality of life (QOL) after esophagectomy. Although further validation based on multicenter trials using the standard protocol of SN mapping for esophageal cancer is required, SN navigation surgery would enable us to carry out personalized and limited lymph node dissection which might reduce morbidity and maintain patients' QOL.
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