Can preoperative axillary US help exclude N2 and N3 metastatic breast cancer?

CH Neal, CP Daly, AV Nees, MA Helvie - Radiology, 2010 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To determine the false-negative rate of axillary ultrasonography (US) with respect
to stage N2 and N3 metastatic disease in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer …

Impact of clinicopathological factors on sensitivity of axillary ultrasonography in the detection of axillary nodal metastases in patients with breast cancer

I Bedrosian, D Bedi, HM Kuerer, BD Fornage… - Annals of surgical …, 2003 - Springer
Background: Ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration (FNA) are used to evaluate the
breast and regional nodes in breast cancer patients. We sought to identify factors influencing …

Role of ultrasonography to detect axillary node involvement in operable breast cancer

JS Vaidya, JJ Vyas, MH Thakur, KC Khandelwal… - European Journal of …, 1996 - Elsevier
Prompted by the concern about unnecessary axillary dissections, we prospectively studied
the accuracy of clinical examination (CE) and conventional ultrasonography (USG, 7.5 …

Distinct lymph nodal sonographic characteristics in breast cancer patients at high risk for axillary metastases correlate with the final axillary stage

A Moore, M Hester, MW Nam, YM Brill… - The British journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical relevance, limitations and most common
findings of axillary ultrasound and subsequent image-guided aspiration cytology in clinically …

Pre-operative ultrasonographic evaluation of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients: For which group still of additional value and in which group cause for …

AM Moorman, R Bourez, DM de Leeuw… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
A non-invasive and widely available method for pre-operative evaluation of the axilla is
axillary ultrasonography (US). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic …

Axillary ultrasonography in breast cancer patients helps in identifying patients preoperatively with limited disease of the axilla

AM Moorman, R Bourez, HJ Heijmans… - Annals of surgical …, 2014 - Springer
Background The sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) procedure is the method of choice for
the identification and monitoring of regional lymph node metastases in patients with breast …

The efficacy of axillary ultrasound in the detection of nodal metastasis in breast cancer

B Lee, AK Lim, J Krell… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. Recent reports indicate a lack of survival benefit for axillary lymph node
dissection (ALND) versus sentinel lymph node biopsy in early breast cancer. To study this …

Correlation of the use of axillary ultrasound and lymph node needle biopsy with surgical lymph node pathology in patients with invasive breast cancer

MS Cowher, KM Erb, W Poller, TB Julian - The American journal of surgery, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Results vary regarding the utility of perioperative axillary ultrasound (AUS)
and biopsy for detecting axillary metastases. METHODS: Patients diagnosed with invasive …

Axillary ultrasound accurately excludes clinically significant lymph node disease in patients with early stage breast cancer

NS Tucker, AE Cyr, FO Ademuyiwa, A Tabchy… - Annals of …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Assess the performance characteristics of axillary ultrasound (AUS) for accurate
exclusion of clinically significant axillary lymph node (ALN) disease. Background: Sentinel …

Accuracy of axillary ultrasound in preoperative nodal staging of breast cancer-size of metastases as limiting factor

A Stachs, K Göde, S Hartmann, B Stengel, U Nierling… - Springerplus, 2013 - Springer
Since the performance of surgical procedures of the axilla in the treatment of early breast
cancer is decreasing, the role of axillary ultrasound (AUS) as staging procedere has newly …