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We hypothesized that multimarker reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of sentinel lymph nodes (SNs) draining a primary CRC could detect micrometastases not detected by conventional histopathologic analysis.<\/jats:p><jats:p>PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a multi-institutional study, 40 patients with primary CRC underwent dye-directed lymphatic mapping at the time of colon resection. Each dye-stained SN was tagged, and the tumor and regional nodes were resected en bloc. All lymph nodes were examined by conventional hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining. In addition, each SN was cut into multiple sections for cytokeratin immunohistochemical (CK-IHC) staining and for RT-PCR and electrochemiluminescent detection of three markers: \u03b2-chain human chorionic gonadotropin, hepatocyte growth factor receptor, and universal melanoma-associated antigen. Whenever possible, RT-PCR assay was also performed on primary tumor tissue. The detection sensitivity of individual markers was 10<jats:sup>\u2212<\/jats:sup><jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>to 10<jats:sup>\u2212<\/jats:sup><jats:sup>4<\/jats:sup>\u03bcg of RNA and one to five tumor cells in 10<jats:sup>7<\/jats:sup>lymphocytes of healthy donors.<\/jats:p><jats:p>RESULTS: One to three SNs were identified in each patient. An average of 15 nodes were removed from each CRC specimen. No nonsentinel (untagged) node contained evidence of tumor if all tagged (sentinel) nodes in the same specimen were histopathology tumor-negative. HE staining of SNs identified tumor in 10 patients (25%), and CK-IHC of SNs identified occult micrometastases in four patients (10%) whose SNs were negative by HE. Of the remaining 26 patients with no evidence of SN involvement by HE or CK-IHC, 12 (46%) had positive RT-PCR results. The number of markers expressed in each SN correlated (P &lt; .04) with the T stage of the primary tumor. 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