… In 1993 a pilot series of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsies in breast cancer patients was …
the breast tumor. This made it possible to identify the location of the sentinel node before skin …

… sensitive methodologies for evaluating breast cancer lymph node metastases. There are
obvious differences between melanoma and breast cancer. Breast cancer generally grows at a …

… of sentinel lymph node biopsy for early-stage breast cancer, … rates of intraoperative sentinel
lymph node identification and of … being investigated and in lymphatic mapping techniques. …

… sentinel lymph node Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping for breast cancer has become
the primary way to accurately assess nodal metastasis. The sensitivity of this technique is …

… Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is a rapidly emerging treatment option for the patient
with early stage invasive breast cancer … cohort of breast cancer patients who are node-negative. …

… even at major cancer centers. In the current study, we applied cytokeratin IHC staining to …
nodes. Our purpose was to determine whether the sentinel node is truly the axillary lymph node …

… sentinel lymph nodes for patients with breast carcinoma. Cancer. 2001; 92: 1378-1384 … The
annual rate of events associated with breast cancer (local recurrences, regional lymph node …

… Although the term “sentinel lymph node” had been coined in … 2 sentinel lymph node biopsy
(SNB) came to fruition in the 1990s. It was first used to detect metastases in the sentinel node (…

… study of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast carcinoma patients. Paraffin embedded tissue
blocks of sentinel and nonsentinel lymph nodes were obtained for 214 lymph node negative …

… clinical implementation of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in breast cancer patients with
… clinical implementation of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in breast cancer patients with …