Feasibility of preoperative tattooing of percutaneously biopsied axillary lymph node: an experimental pilot study

Abstract Background In the last three decades, axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has been replaced by sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in all clinically node-negative patients. However, when SLNB alone is performed in clinically node-positive patients who are rendered node-negative by neoadjuva...

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Main Authors: Abida K. Sattar, Basim Ali, Imrana Masroor, Shaista Afzal, Mohammad Usman Tariq, Romana Idrees, Maseeh Uzzaman, Wardah Khalid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:Pilot and Feasibility Studies
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40814-020-00682-2