Back عقدة لمفاوية حارسة Arabic Gangli sentinella Catalan Skildvagtslymfeknude Danish Wächterlymphknoten German Ganglio centinela Spanish Ganglion sentinelle French Linfonodo sentinella Italian センチネルリンパ節 Japanese Schildwachtklier Dutch Węzeł wartowniczy Polish
The sentinel lymph node is the hypothetical first lymph node or group of nodes draining a cancer. In case of established cancerous dissemination it is postulated that the sentinel lymph nodes are the target organs primarily reached by metastasizing cancer cells from the tumor.
The sentinel node procedure (also termed sentinel lymph node biopsy or SLNB) is the identification, removal and analysis of the sentinel lymph nodes of a particular tumour.[1]