SENTINEL LYMPH NODE MAPPING AND BIOPSY IN EARLY BREAST CANCER WITH CLINICALLY NEGATIVE AXILLARY LYMPH NODES

ABDEL HAMID HUSSEIN EZZAT ABDEL HAMID;

Abstract


One hundred and two patients with clinically node-negative palpable invasive Tl&/orT2 breast cancer undervent - At the National cancer Institute, Cairo University , between May 2000 and April 2002 -
sentinel node biopsy using the combined patent blue dye and


technetium99


- labeled nanocolloidal albumin (Nanocoll), followed


immediately by either local excision of the primary lesion with standard axillary lymph node dissection or modified radical mastectomy . The sentinel lymph node was successfully identified in
97. I% of the patients .The sentinel node was falsely negative in 9 patients, yielding an accuracy of 76.8%., sensitivity of 65.4%, and negative predictive value of86.8%.

Key Words
Sentinel lymph node-early breast cancer- N.C.I­ Cairo University.


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Title SENTINEL LYMPH NODE MAPPING AND BIOPSY IN EARLY BREAST CANCER WITH CLINICALLY NEGATIVE AXILLARY LYMPH NODES
Other Titles سم خريطة واستئصال الغدة اللنفاوية الحارسة ودراستها مجهريا في سرطان الثدي المبكر ذو الغدة اللنفاوية الابطية السالبة اكلينيكيا
Authors ABDEL HAMID HUSSEIN EZZAT ABDEL HAMID
Issue Date 2002

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