… Figure 1 Possible algorithm for axillary staging in patients with early stage invasive breast
cancer. The +/− indicates that in the setting of palpable lymph nodes, US evaluation and US-…

… The overall rate of axillary lymph node … in the axilla. SNB is the optimum approach in terms
of morbidity for the assessment of axillary metastasis in clinically node negative breast cancer. …

… accuracy of axillary staging in breast cancer and can … Axillary lymphadenectomy (ALND)
for patients with potentially curable carcinoma of the breast is increasingly viewed as a staging …

… Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard of care for axillary staging of patients
with breast cancer who have a clinically and radiologically negative axilla [1–6]. Preoperative …

… Staging of the axilla has undergone a dramatic de-escalation; … of axillary staging in breast
cancer from emphasis on anatomic staging to tumor biology, and the evolving role of axillary …

… axillary nodal metastasis (10, 11). The development of noninvasive diagnostic modalities for
… axillary staging would represent an important advance in the management of breast cancer …

… into three prognostic stages: small tumors that appeared to be localized to the breast (Stage
I), larger tumors that involved the axillary lymph nodes (Stage II), and tumors that had clearly …

… axillary nodal staging of breast cancer and in particular sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy are
reviewed. SLN biopsy seems an almost ideal staging … on standard axillary staging and the …

… Axillary ultrasound (AUS) is a standard procedure in the preoperative clinical identification
of axillary … local and systemic therapy for patients with early breast cancer (EBC). But there is …

… breast cancers are now staged at the lower end of the T scale (T1) with an upper size limit of
0·5–1·0 cm (T1b). T1b encompasses the concept of “minimal breast … positive axillary nodes …