A New and Simple Predictive Formula for Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients with Positive Sentinel Lymph Nodes, and Validation of 3 Different Nomograms in Turkish Breast Cancer Patients
Author(s) -
Levent Yenıay,
Erdem Barış Cartı,
Can Karaca,
Osman Zekioğlu,
Ülkem Yararbaş,
Rasih Yılmaz,
Murat Kapkaç
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
breast care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.767
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1661-3805
pISSN - 1661-3791
DOI - 10.1159/000338844
Subject(s) - nomogram , medicine , sentinel lymph node , lymph , breast cancer , lymph node , oncology , receiver operating characteristic , confidence interval , metastasis , area under the curve , radiology , cancer , surgery , urology , pathology
Nomogram accuracies for predicting non-sentinel lymph node (SLN) involvement vary between different patient populations. Our aim is to put these nomograms to test on our patient population and determine our individual predictive parameters affecting SLN and non-SLN involvement.
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