Blue dye for sentinel lymph node mapping: not too sensitive, but too hypersensitive?

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R S Krouse et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2001 Apr.

. 2001 Apr;8(3):268-9.

doi: 10.1007/s10434-001-0268-1.

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