Sentinel nodes identified by computed tomography-lymphography accurately stage the axilla in patients with breast cancer
Open Access
- 9 December 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medical Imaging
- Vol. 13 (1) , 42
Abstract
Sentinel node biopsy often results in the identification and removal of multiple nodes as sentinel nodes, although most of these nodes could be non-sentinel nodes. This study investigated whether computed tomography-lymphography (CT-LG) can distinguish sentinel nodes from non-sentinel nodes and whether sentinel nodes identified by CT-LG can accurately stage the axilla in patients with breast cancer.Keywords
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