Higher axillary lymph node metastasis burden in breast cancer patients with positive preoperative node biopsy: may not be appropriate to receive sentinel lymph node biopsy in the post-ACOSOG Z0011 trial era

Abstract Background Breast cancer patients with suspicious axillary lymph node (ALN) at ultrasound and positive fine-needle aspiration (FNA) results were required to receive ALN dissection (ALND), which was not certain in the post-ACOSOG Z0011 era. We aim to evaluate the ALN metastasis burden in the...

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Main Authors: Yue Liang, Xiaosong Chen, Yiwei Tong, Weiwei Zhan, Ying Zhu, Jiayi Wu, Ou Huang, Jianrong He, Li Zhu, Yafen Li, Weiguo Chen, Kunwei Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:World Journal of Surgical Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12957-019-1582-z