In-transit sentinel nodes must be found: implication from a 10-year follow-up study in melanoma.

The aim was to study the occurrence of in-transit nodes at a preoperative lymphoscintigraphy for patients with primary melanoma, and to reveal their potential role in prognosis. From 1984 to 1996, 911 patients, hospitalized for wide excision of a clinically localized primary cutaneous head–neck or t