Lymph Node Surgery. Sentinel lymph node biopsy in a sentinel lymph node biopsy slnb the surgeon finds and removes the first lymph node s to which a tumor is likely to spread called the sentinel nodes. A needle biopsy removes a small sample of cells from your lymph node.
They send the nodes to the laboratory to check them for cancer cells. 5 the surgeon will remove the section of fat tissue that contains the lymph nodes. So in this case your surgeon will suggest removing the lymph nodes closest to the cancer.
There are three ways to perform a lymph node biopsy.
The type of procedure your surgeon will perform will depend on the likelihood of there being cancer in the nodes. The sentinel nodes are the first few lymph nodes into which a tumor drains. Sentinel lymph node biopsy. It s used most commonly in evaluating breast cancer and melanoma.
