Sentinel lymph node biopsy is now the practice of choice for the management of many
patients with breast cancer. This was not true in the early 1990s, when the first such …

Purpose Lymph node metastasis is a multifactorial event. Several variables have been
described as predictors of lymph node metastasis in breast cancer. However, it is difficult to …

Breast lymphoscintigraphy is increasingly performed before surgery to delineate the
drainage to the sentinel node (SN) in the axilla. On the basis of the histologic status of …

PURPOSE: Lymph node involvement is the most important prognostic factor in breast
cancer. It is a multifactorial event determined by patient and tumour characteristics. The …

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the visualization rate, identification rate,
and clinical implications of biopsy of sentinel nodes in the internal mammary chain (IMC) in …

Background Since the introduction of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in breast cancer
patients there is a renewed interest in lymphatic drainage to the internal mammary (IM) …

Background Multiple injection routes, including intradermal (ID), intraparenchymal (IP), and
subareolar (SA), are used for 99m Tc-sulfur colloid administration for sentinel lymph node …

Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) or sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) alone may
lead to postoperative complications. Among patients with positive ALN in the preoperative …

Presence versus absence of axillary nodal metastases remains the most powerful
prognostic feature available in stratifying breast cancer patients according to risk of relapse …

Background Lymphoscintigraphy (LS) with sentinel node (SN) biopsy is proposed to provide
a feasible method to complete lymphatic staging in breast cancer. The aim of this study was …