ICG fluorescence-guided sentinel node biopsy for axillary nodal staging in breast cancer
✍ Scribed by Christoph Hirche; Dawid Murawa; Zarah Mohr; Soeren Kneif; Michael Hünerbein
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 333 KB
- Volume
- 121
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6806
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## Abstract ## Background The aim of this study was to validate sentinel node biopsy for axillary staging after the initial learning phase, and to analyse factors associated with false-negative biopsies. ## Methods Some 675 patients, who had standard sentinel node biopsy followed by level I and
84 T1-T2 N0 breast cancer patients were recruited for a multicenter study on the lymphoscintigraphic search of the axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN). The SLN was searched intraoperatively with a sodium iodide hand-held gamma-detecting probe (GDP) and excised before the standard axillary dissection