Laparoscopic sentinel lymph node mapping in endometrial cancer

PREFACE OF THE PhD THESIS: The sentinel lymph node mapping represents one of the research lines of the candidate during her PhD activity at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, at the University of Bern, under the supervision of Prof. MD Mueller. During this period, the candidate authored/coauthored 16 articles in the field of sentinel lymph node mapping in uterine cancers; part of them were multicentric trials, edited in cooperation with several other European Academic Institutions. In this thesis, the candidate focused the main results achieved in this period, in the setting of the clinical application of lymph node mapping in endometrial cancer.