Abstract
Detection of sentinel nodes, originally developed for malignant melanoma, has gradually spread throughout the oncological surgery. It became a standard method for melanoma, breast cancer, carcinoma of the cervix and vulva.
The first report of the sentinel lymph node biopsy in endometrial carcinoma is 1996 - Burke, 3 years earlier than cervical carcinoma. The first laparoscopic lymphadenectomy was performed in 1989 for cancer of the cervix - Dargent