Could radiotherapy play a major role in misidentification of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer recurrence?
retrospective_cohort · Level III
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Abstract
Misidentification of sentinel lymph node via lymphoscintigraphy for breast cancer is an infrequent event. We analysed 35.022 consecutive procedures from a single institution and tried to find a correlation between failures of sentinel node identification and previous oncologic treatments received by the patients.
Medical subject headings
- Breast Neoplasms
- Sentinel Lymph Node