Methods From February 1994 through October 1995, patients with breast cancer were
staged with sentinel lymphadenectomy followed by completion level I and II axillary …

PURPOSE We previously demonstrated increased detection of axillary metastases using
sentinel lymphadenectomy (SLND) and immunohistochemistry. These methods have …

BACKGROUND Routine histologic examination of axillary sentinel lymph nodes predicts
axillary lymph node status and may spare patients with breast carcinoma axillary lymph …

PURPOSE: Immediate complete axillary lymphadenectomy (ALND) after sentinel
lymphadenectomy (SLND) has confirmed that tumor-negative sentinel nodes accurately …

Objective: The authors evaluated the effect of intraoperative lymphatic mapping and sentinel
lymphadenectomy (SLND) on the axillary staging of patients with carcinoma of the breast …

The status of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) has been shown to accurately reflect the
presence or absence of metastases in the axilla in patients with breast cancer. This study …

Background: Sentinel lymphadenectomy is highly accurate for identifying axillary metastasis
from a primary breast carcinoma. Nonsentinel axillary lymph nodes (NSNs) are unlikely to …

Background: Axillary node status remains the most important prognostic indicator of survival
in breast cancer patients. Only 25% to 35% of patients having standard level I/II axillary …

Sentinel lymph node dissection is a minimally invasive surgical technique for staging of
breast carcinoma. The optimal pathologic examination of the sentinel node (SN) has not yet …

Node in Breast Cancer Page 1 y—Probe-Gaided Resection of the Sentinel Lymph Node in
Breast Cancer JAMES A. CROSSIN, MD, A. CEDRIC JOHNSON, MD, PAUL B. STEWART, MD …