Diagnostic Accuracy and Impact on Management of Ultrasonography-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration to Detect Axillary Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study | Zendy

M. J. Díaz-Ruíz | Zendy; Anna Arnau | Zendy; J. Montesinos | Zendy; Ana Miguel | Zendy; Pere Culell | Zendy; Lluís Solernou | Zendy; Lídia Tortajada | Zendy; Carmen Vergara | Zendy; Carlos Yanguas | Zendy; Rafael Salvador-Tarrasón | Zendy

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Diagnostic Accuracy and Impact on Management of Ultrasonography-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration to Detect Axillary Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study

Author(s) -

M. J. Díaz-Ruíz,

Anna Arnau,

J. Montesinos,

Ana Miguel,

Pere Culell,

Lluís Solernou,

Lídia Tortajada,

Carmen Vergara,

Carlos Yanguas,

Rafael Salvador-Tarrasón

Publication year - 2015

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 - 10.1159/000442481

Subject(s) - medicine , fine needle aspiration , radiology , breast cancer , biopsy , sentinel lymph node , axillary lymph nodes , metastasis , axilla , prospective cohort study , lymph , breast carcinoma , ultrasonography , cancer , surgery , pathology

The axillary nodal status is essential to determine the stage of disease at diagnosis. Our aim was to prospectively assess the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration (US-FNA) for the detection of metastasis in axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer (BC) and its impact on the therapeutic decision.

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