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01.06.2011 | Original Article
The value of axillary ultrasound with fine needle aspiration as a pre-operative staging procedure in breast cancer: Northern Irish experience
Erschienen in: Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) | Ausgabe 2/2011
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Introduction
In our unit sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is performed without intra-operative pathological nodal assessment. If node biopsies are positive the patients have to return at a later date for a complete axillary node clearance (ANC).
Methods
We conducted a retrospective study to ascertain if the use of pre-operative ultrasound assessment of the axilla with fine needle aspiration (FNA) sampling could identify patients with nodal metastases and therefore identify patients who should proceed primarily to ANC.
Results
Our study showed that 40 patients out of 119 had nodal metastases, and ultrasound correctly identified 19 of those patients.