Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer: time has come to systematically perform it before planned axillary clearance.
Breast 2009;
19:65-6. [PMID:
19896849 DOI:
10.1016/j.breast.2009.10.006]
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Abstract
Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a simple and relatively safe technique that emerged as a standard in the management of early breast cancer. Indications are becoming larger and because this particular node provides significant epidemiological, clinical, pathological, educational and prognostic information efforts must be done to identify it even when a a complete axillary clearance is planned.
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