Open AccessPredicting the Risk for Additional Axillary Metastases in Patients With Breast Carcinoma and Positive Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
Author(s) -
Giuseppe Viale,
Eugenio Maiorano,
Giancarlo Pruneri,
Mauro G. Mastropasqua,
Stefano Valentini,
Viviana Galimberti,
Stefano Zurrida,
Patrick Maisonneuve,
Giovanni Paganelli,
Giovanni Mazzarol
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000150255.30665.52
Subject(s) - medicine , axillary lymph node dissection , sentinel lymph node , radiology , biopsy , lymph node , lymph , breast carcinoma , axilla , breast cancer , surgery , oncology , pathology , cancer
To assess whether the risk for nonsentinel node metastases may be predicted, thus sparing a subgroup of patients with breast carcinoma and a positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND).