Patent blue V dye

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-015860",
  "term": "Patent blue V dye",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A synthetic dye with imaging and food coloring property. It is a sodium or calcium salt of [4-(alpha-(4-diethylaminophenyl)-5-hydroxy- 2,4-disulfophenyl-methylidene)-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-ylidene] diethylammonium hydroxide inner salt. Patent blue V dye is used in sentinel lymph node (SLN) technique to guide nodal dissection or other imaging procedures.",
  "synonyms": [
    "dye, patent blue V",
    "dye, patent blue violet",
    "patent blue violet dye"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/patent-blue-v-dye/"
}