TY - JOUR
T1 - Sentinel lymph node evaluation
T2 - What the radiologist needs to know
AU - Whitman, Gary J.
AU - AlHalawani, Raya H.
AU - Karbasian, Niloofar
AU - Krishnamurthy, Rajesh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Axillary lymph node status is the single most important prognostic indicator in patients with breast cancer. Axillary lymph node dissection, the traditional method of staging breast cancer, is associated with significant morbidity. Sentinel lymph node biopsy has become standard in patients being treated for breast cancer with clinically negative lymph nodes. There is considerable variation in the medical literature regarding technical approaches to sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer. The purpose of this article is to describe our preferred approaches to sentinel lymph node biopsy with a review of the literature.
AB - Axillary lymph node status is the single most important prognostic indicator in patients with breast cancer. Axillary lymph node dissection, the traditional method of staging breast cancer, is associated with significant morbidity. Sentinel lymph node biopsy has become standard in patients being treated for breast cancer with clinically negative lymph nodes. There is considerable variation in the medical literature regarding technical approaches to sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer. The purpose of this article is to describe our preferred approaches to sentinel lymph node biopsy with a review of the literature.
KW - Axillary lymph node evaluation
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Sentinel lymph node biopsy
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U2 - 10.3390/diagnostics9010012
DO - 10.3390/diagnostics9010012
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30658417
AN - SCOPUS:85066419089
SN - 2075-4418
VL - 9
JO - Diagnostics
JF - Diagnostics
IS - 1
M1 - 12
ER -