Diathermy-assisted axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast carcinoma risks understaging the axilla in over a quarter of cases

Breast J. 2020 May;26(5):1081-1084. doi: 10.1111/tbj.13676. Epub 2019 Nov 3.

Authors

Tatiana Bovill Rose¹, Harry R Haynes^{2

3}, Richard J Sutton⁴, Chris J Meehan², D Simon C Rose²

Affiliations

¹ Jesus College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Department of Cellular Pathology, RUH Bath, Bath, UK.
³ Translational Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁴ Department of Breast Surgery, RUH Bath, Bath, UK.

PMID: 31680335
DOI: 10.1111/tbj.13676

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MeSH terms

Axilla
Breast Neoplasms* / surgery
Diathermy*
Humans
Lymph Node Excision
Lymph Nodes
Lymphatic Metastasis
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy