Number of sentinel lymph nodes examined
Property Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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METEOR identifier: | 370554 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 06/03/2009 |
Definition: | The total number of sentinel lymph nodes examined by the pathologist. A sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread from the primary tumour. |
Property group: | Assessment event |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | National Cancer Institute, U.S National Institutes of Health http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=45876 |
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Relational attributes | |
Data Element Concepts implementing this property: | Person with cancer—number of sentinel lymph nodes examined Health!, Standard 06/03/2009 |
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