The role of ultrasound-guided lymph node biopsy in axillary staging of invasive breast cancer in the post-ACOSOG Z0011 trial era

NC Verheuvel, I Van Den Hoven, HWA Ooms… - Annals of surgical …, 2015 - Springer
Background Axillary status in invasive breast cancer, established by sentinel lymph node
biopsy (SLNB) or ultrasound-guided lymph node biopsy, is an important prognostic …

Preoperative axillary US in early-stage breast cancer: potential to prevent unnecessary axillary lymph node dissection

GR Kim, JS Choi, BK Han, JE Lee, SJ Nam, EY Ko… - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To evaluate the value of preoperative axillary ultrasonography (US) for preventing
unnecessary axillary lymph node dissection after sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in a …

Preoperative axillary ultrasound versus sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with early breast cancer

D Rukanskienė, V Veikutis, E Jonaitienė, M Basevičiūtė… - Medicina, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background and objectives: With improved diagnostic means of early breast cancer, the
percentage of cases with metastasis in axillary lymph nodes has decreased from 50–75% to …

Shortcomings of ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration in the axillary management of women with breast cancer

M Attieh, F Jamali, G Berjawi, M Saadeldine… - World Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Ultrasound, along with ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration, is currently
used for the axillary evaluation of breast cancer patients in order to identify candidates for …

Different outcome in node-positive breast cancer patients found by axillary ultrasound or sentinel node procedure

NC Verheuvel, AC Voogd, VCG Tjan-Heijnen… - Breast cancer research …, 2017 - Springer
Background The Z0011 trial initiated a paradigm shift in the axillary treatment of breast
cancer patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), disregarding patients …

The clinical utility of assessment of the axilla in women with suspicious screen detected breast lesions in the post Z0011 era

G Farshid, J Kollias, P Grantley Gill - Breast Cancer Research and …, 2015 - Springer
Axillary ultrasound (AUS) and biopsy are now part of the preoperative assessment of breast
cancer based on the assumption that any nodal disease is an indication for axillary …

A new model incorporating axillary ultrasound after neoadjuvant chemotherapy to predict non-sentinel lymph node metastasis in invasive breast cancer

K Zhang, Q Zhu, D Sheng, J Li… - Cancer Management and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Few models with good discriminative power have been introduced to predict the
risk of non-sentinel lymph node (non-SLN) metastasis in breast cancer after neoadjuvant …

The promise of axillary imaging in individualized surgical management of breast cancer patients: another step forward

TJ Hieken - Annals of surgical oncology, 2014 - Springer
Breast surgical oncologists are to be commended for moving forward rapidly to embrace
selective and individualized therapy for their patients. Eleven years after publication of the …

The role of ultrasound guided core biopsy of axillary nodes in predicting macrometastases and avoiding overtreatment outside ACOSOG Z0011 parameters

JT YL, K McGowan, G Cooley, R McLaughlin… - The breast, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Z0011 study suggests patients with minimal disease do not require axillary
clearance. Exclusions include T3 tumours, mastectomy or neoadjuvant treatment. This study …

A comparative analysis of axillary nodal burden in ultrasound/biopsy positive axilla vs ultrasound negative sentinel lymph node biopsy positive axilla

M Tandon, W Ball, R Kirby, S Soumian… - Breast …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Axillary Ultrasound (AUS) is now performed as a protocol in every newly
diagnosed breast cancer in most European countries. It is an inexpensive and sensitive tool …