Abstract
Initially presented at the 1990 meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology1 and first reported in the literature in 1992,2 intraoperative lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy (LM/SL) was proposed as an accurate alternative to routine elective lymph node dissection for staging regional lymphatics in patients with cutaneous melanoma. Since that time, the intense interest in LM/SL has generated more than 250 peer-reviewed studies in the literature. The technique has been described not only for patients with melanoma3-6 and for those with breast cancer,7-11 but also for those with thyroid carcinoma,12 colon cancer,13 oropharyngeal carcinoma,14,15 and vulvar carcinoma.
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