Morbidity following sentinel lymph node
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Peter Schrenk; Roman Rieger; Andreas Shamiyeh; Wolfgang Wayand
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Axillary lymph node dissection for staging the axilla in breast carcinoma patients is associated with considerable morbidity, such as edema of the arm, pain, sensory disturbances, impairment of arm mobility, and shoulder stiffness. Sentinel lymph node biopsy electively removes the first lymph node,