The importance of interpectoral nodes in breast cancer
β Scribed by Dixon, J.M.; Dobie, V.; Chetty, U.
- Book ID
- 123141938
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 366 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-8049
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Prospectively, ultrasonographic examination of the interpectoral space was performed in 185 patients with clinical and/or mammographic evidenceisuspicion of breast carcinoma. Of these, 86 patients treated by modified radical mastectomy were included in the study. Interpectoral lymph node metastases
Fifty-eight consecutive patients undergoing a modified radical mastectomy were subjected to complete dissection and pathological assessment of the interpectoral fascia and the group of lymph nodes it contains. The dissection was camed out in all patients, irrespective of whether they were palpable o
## INTERPECTORAL LYMPH-NODES A N D BREAST CANCER Rottev's group of inferpectoral lyniph-nodes was found in 46% of altogefher 530 patients subjected to radical mastectomy. In 12%-a by no means negligible 8guve-these lymph-nodes had been invaded by caiic~r cells. Invasion of the Rotter chain is alm