Preoperative selection of symptomatic breast cancer patients appropriate for lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy

Abstract

Combination of the US and ultrasound guided core biopsy (UGCB) may however identify subgroups unlikely to have axillary disease that are therefore suitable for SLNB.

Intraoperative frozen section assessment of sentinel lymph nodes in the operative management of women with symptomatic breast cancer

“…However, such a strategy deprives the benefits of minimally invasive lymphatic staging from those women who have disease that is locally advanced but still contained within the breast. Furthermore, means of preoperative T-staging are all too often inaccurate[ 3 ]. Any uncertainty surrounding the "completeness" of the initial surgery may weigh heavily on the minds of women undergoing lymphatic mapping due to the interval between operation and histological reporting.…”