It has now been over 10 years since lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node (SLN)
biopsy was first used in patients with breast cancer. 1, 2 Since the procedure was …

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in
patients diagnosed with cT3-4c breast cancer with no more than 2 positive sentinel lymph …

Multiple studies have shown sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) to be an accurate method
of assessing the status of the axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer. 1-4 There …

BACKGROUND: Sentinel node biopsy as a surgical method of axillary staging for early
breast cancer has been widely accepted as an alternative to traditional four-node axillary …

INTRODUCTION: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has become increasingly accepted as
a diagnostic method to stage the axilla in breast cancer, selecting women with a positive …

Since the routine clinical use of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure, questions have
been raised concerning an increase in the overall percentage of node-positive patients. The …

Background Completion axillary lymph node dissection (CALND) is recommended in the
setting of positive sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) but is associated with a higher rate of …

BACKGROUND Lymphatic mapping with sentinel lymph node biopsy has the potential for
reducing the morbidity associated with breast carcinoma staging. It has become a widely …

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a safe and accurate minimally invasive method for
detecting axillary lymph node (ALN) involvement in the clinically negative axilla thereby …

Increasing tumor burden in the axilla, as determined by the number of positive lymph nodes,
adversely affects sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification and false‐negative rates. The …