Number of positive sentinel lymph nodes
Property Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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METEOR identifier: | 370545 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 06/03/2009 |
Definition: | The total number of sentinel lymph nodes examined by a pathologist and reported as containing tumour. Sentinel lymph nodes are the first nodes that filter fluid draining away from the area of cancer. The number of lymph nodes with metastasis is important for cancer staging. |
Property group: | Assessment event |
Relational attributes | |
Data Element Concepts implementing this property: | Person with cancer—number of positive sentinel lymph nodes Health!, Standard 06/03/2009 |
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