Axillary tumour burden in women with a fine-needle aspiration/core biopsy-proven positive node on ultrasonography compared to women with a positive sentinel node.
CONCLUSION: Patients with AUS-detected metastases had a higher axillary tumour burden than those with SNB-detected metastases. Around 40 per cent of patients with AUS-detected nodal disease had one or two nodes with macrometastases and were thus overtreated by ALND.
PMID: 28991362 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Lloyd P, Theophilidou E, Newcombe RG, Pugh L, Goyal A Tags: Br J Surg Source Type: research
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