TY  - JOUR
T1  - SPect/ct for sentinel lymph node detection in patients with melanoma—reply
AU  - Stoffels I, Scherag A, Klode J
Y1  - 2013/01/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.88573
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 232
EP  - 233
VL  - 309
IS  - 3
N2  - 
Regarding the experience of the involved surgeons, it has been shown in other studies that surgeons performing this technique need a minimum of 30 to 55 cases before achieving optimal accuracy while minimizing false-negative results and dissected basin relapse.1 The surgical teams met this requirement. Therefore, an effect of the surgical team performance on the number of excised positive SLNs is less likely.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.88573
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.88573
ER  -