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 node/s is/are the target organs primarily reached by metastasizing cancer cells from the tumor.
The sentinel node procedure is the identification, removal and analysis of the sentinel lymph nodes of a particular tumour.
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