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 …

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

IN 1972, Haagensen1 illus-trated the axillary nodal up-take of a vital blue dye during
mastectomy. In 1977 Cabanas2 described the identification of nodal drainage pathways and …

Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy has become an important tool for
axillary lymph node staging in women with early-stage breast cancer. This review examines …

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

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

Background Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy techniques provide accurate nodal staging
for breast cancer. In the past, complete lymph node dissection (CLND)(levels 1 and 2) was …

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

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: We evaluated the accuracy of sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) in
patients with stage II and III breast cancer who had received preoperative therapy. Methods …