Ultrasonography and ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy can predict a heavy nodal metastatic burden in early-stage breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study aimed to predict a heavy nodal burden (≥3 metastatic axillary lymph nodes [LNs]) using axillary ultrasonography (US) and US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 403 women (404 cancers) who underwent US-guided FNAB for axillary LN staging from January 2006 to December 2015. US findings and US-guided FNAB results were reviewed and compared using pathology results as the reference. Diagnostic performance was analyzed, and clinicopathological and radiological findings were compared between patients with <3 metastatic LNs and ≥3 metastatic LNs.

Results

The final pathology results revealed that 20.5% of cancers had heavy nodal metastases. US-guide

SUBMITTER: Ahn HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8446498 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature