Complementarity of Blue Dye and Isotope in Sentinel Node Localization for Breast Cancer: Univariate and Multivariate Analysis of 966 Procedures

Prospective comparison of peritumoral an

Prospective comparison of peritumoral and subareolar injection of blue dye alone, for identification of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with early stage breast cancer

✍ Ioannis G. Kaklamanos; Konstantinos Birbas; Konstantinos Syrigos; Vasilios G. Bo 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 73 KB

## Abstract ## Background and Objectives Various techniques are used for the identification of the sentinel node (SLN). We prospectively compare the efficacy of SLN biopsy and the number of SLNs identified, by injecting methylene blue (MB) alone in the subareolar area (SA) or peritumorally (PT) in