ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Gynecological Oncology
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1585931
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometrial CancerView all 5 articles
Frontier and hotspots in the role of sentinel lymph node in endometrial cancer based on bibliometric analysis
Provisionally accepted
- 1shenzhen people'hospital, Shenzhen, China
- 2Shenzhen Futian District Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital, shenzhen, China
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The role of sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) in endometrial cancer remains controversial. Our study is dedicated to employing bibliometric methods to explore the correlation between endometrial cancer and SLN. We aim to statistically analyze the existing literature on sentinel lymph nodes in the field of endometrial cancer research and explore future research trends and hotspots. Global literature on the role of SLN in endometrial cancer published from 1900 to the present in the Web of Science core database was searched. Cited articles were focused on by extracting information such as country, journal, keywords, institution and author. Descriptive statistics and visual analysis were performed using VOSviewer and R package. A total of 545 articles were screened, most of which were from USA (159 articles). Based on Bradford Law, Gynecologic Oncology and International Journal of Gynecological Cancer were core journals in this research field. Abu-Rustum Nadeem R from Mem Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was most productive author. The current research focus was endometrial cancer, SLN, lymphadenectomy, biopsy, indocyanine green (ICG). The complication, guidelines, outcomes and survival were the frontier of current research. Researchers in different countries have paid extensive attention to the role of SLN in the treatment of endometrial cancer, and have made breakthroughs in this field. SLN mapping has a promising prospect for the recurrence and prognosis of patients with endometrial cancer. More clinical research is needed to discover the role of SLN in the future.
Keywords: endometrial cancer, Sentinel lymph node, bibliometric analysis, VOSviewer, Bibliometrix R Conceptualization: Diying Li, Jinling Zhang. Data curation: Diying Li, Su Fang
Received: 01 Mar 2025; Accepted: 04 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Yang, Xie, Shao, Fang and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jinling Zhang, shenzhen people'hospital, Shenzhen, China
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