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Mesh term Sentinel Lymph Node

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Lymph Nodes

Description

First lymph node to receive drainage from the primary tumor. SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY is performed to determine early METASTASIS status because cancer cells may appear first in the sentinel node.



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