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*Anatomy and physiology of lymphatic circulation as it relates to metastatic spread of solid cancers *The role of lymph node staging for clinical decision making in patients with solid cancers *Techniques to identify sentinel lymph nodes in patients with: Breast cancer, Melanoma, Penile carcinoma, Head and neck cancer, Ovarian cancer, Vulvar cancer, Endometrial cancer, Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas, Neuroendocrine tumors, Prostate cancer, Non-small cell lung cancer *Histopathology of sentinel lymph nodes: Imprint cytology in sentinel lymph node biopsy, Conventional histology and immunohistochemistry, Molecular biology techniques for sentinel lymph nodes *Non-sentinel-node applications of radioguided surgery: Breast cancer, Parathyroid tumors, Neuroendocrine tumors, Solitary lesions in the lung, Thyroid cancer, Present role of radioimmunoguided surgery *The perspective of the nuclear medicine physician, the surgeon, and the pathologist *Radiopharmaceuticals for radioguided surgery *Instrumentation: Physical performance parameters of intraoperative probes, and other technical issues of radioguided surgery, Imaging probes and positron-sensitive probes *Radiation protection issues in radioguided surgery *Training and credentialing for radioguided surgery