Feasibility of preoperative tattooing of percutaneously biopsied axillary lymph node: an experimental pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the last three decades, axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has been replaced by sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in all clinically node-negative patients. However, when SLNB alone is performed in clinically node-positive patients who are rendered node-negative by neoadjuvant chemotherapy, the procedure has a high false-negative rate and other complementary procedures have been described to improve its reliability. Preoperative tattooing of the suspicious lymph node with India ink at the time of biopsy, in addition to sentinel lymph node biopsy, is a reasonable alternative. The objective of our study is to determine, in clinically node-positive patients, the feasibility of tattooing suspicious axillary lymph node at the time of percutaneous needle biopsy and its re

SUBMITTER: Sattar AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7513507 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature