Selective surgical localization of axillary lymph nodes containing metastases in patients with breast cancer: a prospective feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Nodal ultrasonography with needle biopsy of abnormal lymph nodes helps to define the extent of breast cancer before neoadjuvant chemotherapy. A clip can be placed to designate lymph nodes with documented metastases. Targeted axillary dissection or selective removal of lymph nodes known to contain metastases (clip-containing nodes) as well as sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) may provide more accurate assessment of the pathologic response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Objective

To determine the feasibility of image-guided localization and resection of lymph nodes containing known metastases.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective feasibility trial performed at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, included 12 patients with axillary nodal metasta

SUBMITTER: Caudle AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4508192 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature