Resumen

CASTILLO, Livia et al. Ganglio centinela en carcinoma de células escamosas de piel: Reporte de un caso. Rev. venez. oncol. [online]. 2009, vol.21, n.3, pp.169-173. ISSN 0798-0582.

The skin cancers present increment in his incidence in the last years. The general super life to 5 years is 90 % if is not present ganglion metastases, 28 % - 60 % is it ganglion compromise. The treatment is surgical resection, local enough resection and ganglion dissection only in case of palpable linfatics nodule. A male patient 37 years old with diagnostic epidermoide carcinoma of skin of right knee, with presentation risk factors how mayor size 2 mm, depth mayor of 4 mm and angio lymphatic invasion; without inguinal increase size ganglions; we decide realize a sentinel ganglion. The ganglion sentinel was reported in the frozen study how positive to metastases we proceeded to realize and inguinal dissection. In these work we propose the use of sentinel ganglion biopsy how and fictile alternative to the study of patients with epidermoide carcinoma with risk factors and without palpable ganglions.

Palabras clave : Cancer; skin; epidermoide; basocelular; surgery; sentinel ganglion.