Citation:Spillane AJ, Pasquali S, Haydu LE, Thompson JF 2014

Citation

Spillane AJ, Pasquali S, Haydu LE, Thompson JF. Patterns of recurrence and survival after lymphadenectomy in melanoma patients: clarifying the effects of timing of surgery and lymph node tumor burden. Ann Surg Oncol 2014 Jan;21(1):292-9 Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24052314.

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Critical appraisal link	Clinical question	Assigned to	Status
Spillane AJ, Pasquali S, Haydu LE, Thompson JF 2014	Should all patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy have a complete node dissection?	Lyndal Alchin	completed
Spillane AJ, Pasquali S, Haydu LE, Thompson JF 2014 2	Should all patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy have a complete node dissection?	Jackie Buck	completed

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1. Should all patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy have a complete node dissection?
2. What is the appropriate treatment of macroscopic (i.e. detectable clinically or by ultrasound) nodal metastases?