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Gan To Kagaku Ryoho
; 39(12): 1914-6, 2012 Nov.
Artículo
en Japonés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23267928
RESUMEN
In the early stages of breast cancer when axillary lymph node dissection is avoidable, we performed same day surgery with a breast-conserving operation following sentinel lymph node navigation biopsy under local anesthesia. Initial sentinel lymph node biopsy under local anesthesia is performed to avoid false-negative sentinel lymph node metastasis. Resected sentinel lymph nodes were examined in fixed sections by hematoxylin-eosin staining and immunohistochemistry. The enrolled subjects were 20 patients with breast cancer whose diagnoses were confirmed before treatment. Two (10.0%) patients had metastasis.