Strategy for the accurate preoperative evaluation of the number of metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Although we can pick up LNs that are likely to have metastasis on CT/US, it was impossible to accurately predict the number of metastases on CT/US. However, bedside-FNAC of suspicious LNs could accurately predict the number of metastases.
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Source: Asian Journal of Surgery - April 13, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Imai N, Kitayama M, Shibahara A, Bessho Y, Shibusawa M, Noro A, Inakami K, Hanamura N, Imai H, Ogawa T Tags: Asian J Surg Source Type: research