Ultrasound and clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The goal of this study was to assess the clinicopathological and ultrasound (US) features of breast cancer for predicting the risk of axillary lymph node metastasis.

Methods

Patients with breast cancer were included in this retrospective, monocentric, observational study. Their preoperative ultrasound features, clinical data, laboratory results and postoperative pathologic results and immunophenotyping were collected. The association of these factors of breast cancer with axillary lymph node metastasis was evaluated by univariate and multivariate analysis.

Results

In this study, 471 patients diagnosed with breast cancer at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University between July 2016 and September 2019 were collected, with a total of 471 nodu

SUBMITTER: Bai X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10657709 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature