Axillary Lymph Node Echo-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology Enables Breast Cancer Patients to Avoid a Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy. Preliminary Experience and a Review of the Literature
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- 作者：Vittorio Altomare ; Gabriella Guerriero ; Rita Carino ; Cleonice Battista ; Angelo Primavera ; Annamaria Altomare ; Donata Vaccaro ; Alessandro Esposito ; Anna Maria Ferri and Carla Rabitti
- 关键词：Lymph node cytology ; Sentinel lymph node biopsy ; Breast cancer
- 刊名：Surgery Today
- 出版时间：September, 2007
- 出版年：2007
- 期刊代码：206_0941-1291
- 类别：med
- 卷：37
- 期：9
- 页码：735-739
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
Purpose For many years, the status of the axillary lymph nodes has been determined by an axillary lymphadenectomy. However, a sentinel lymph node biopsy has been shown to effectively replace the need for an axillary lymphadenectomy in order to determine the axillary staging. This study presents the preliminary results regarding the efficacy of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) to identify metastatic axillary lymph nodes in the pre-operative phase.