Added Value of the Presence of Blue Nodes or Hot Nodes in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy of Breast Cancer

Hiroyuki Takei,Kimito Suemasu,Masafumi Kurosumi,Yoshioi Horii,Jun Ninomiya,Mari Kamimura,Rin Naganuma,Kazuhiro Uchida,Kiyomi Igarashi,Kenichi Inoue,Toshio Tabei

Added Value of the Presence of Blue Nodes or Hot Nodes in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy of Breast Cancer

2006

Hiroyuki Takei
Kimito Suemasu
Masafumi Kurosumi
Yoshioi Horii
Jun Ninomiya
Mari Kamimura
Rin Naganuma
Kazuhiro Uchida
Kiyomi Igarashi
Kenichi Inoue
Toshio Tabei

Background Combined use of blue dye and radiocolloid is considered to be useful for sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy of breast cancer. Whether both techniques together is superior to either alone was analyzed.

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Biopsy
Breast cancer
Sentinel lymph node
General surgery
Medicine
Added value
lymphatic metastasis
Pathology
neoplasm staging
blue dye
Radiology
combined use
radionuclide imaging

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