Axillary lymph node dissection can be avoided in women with breast cancer with intraoperative, false-negative sentinel lymph node biopsies

Hiroyuki Takei,Masafumi Kurosumi,Takashi Yoshida,Yuko Ishikawa,Yuji Hayashi,Jun Ninomiya,Katsunori Tozuka,Hanako Oba,Kenichi Inoue,Shigenori E. Nagai,Yoshihiro Saito,Tomoko Kazumoto,Jun-ichi Saitoh,Toshio Tabei

Axillary lymph node dissection can be avoided in women with breast cancer with intraoperative, false-negative sentinel lymph node biopsies

2010

Hiroyuki Takei
Masafumi Kurosumi
Takashi Yoshida
Yuko Ishikawa
Yuji Hayashi
Jun Ninomiya
Katsunori Tozuka
Hanako Oba
Kenichi Inoue
Shigenori E. Nagai
Yoshihiro Saito
Tomoko Kazumoto
Jun-ichi Saitoh
Toshio Tabei

Background It is currently unclear which patients with breast cancer with sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases do not need axillary lymph node dissection (ALND).

Keywords:

Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
Breast cancer
Radiology
Sentinel lymph node
General surgery
Frozen section procedure
Medicine
Surgical oncology

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