Results showed 130 of 181 (71.8%) patients with suspicious axillary ultrasound images were found to have positive nodes at surgery, whereas 243 of 430 (56.5%) of patients with normal axillary ...

Lymph node ultrasounds more accurate in obese breast cancer patients Date: April 30, 2014 Source: Mayo Clinic Summary: Research into whether ultrasounds to detect breast cancer in underarm lymph ...

Postchemotherapy AUS images were reviewed for 611 patients. One hundred thirty (71.8%) of 181 AUS-suspicious patients were node positive at surgery compared with 243 (56.5%) of 430 AUS-normal patients ...

The study included women diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma (602 women) or invasive ductal carcinoma (4199 women) in the West of Scotland in 2012-2014.

Abstract Objective To investigate the value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) combined with Procalcitonin (PCT) in differentiating Tuberculous Lymph Nodes (TLN) from Metastatic Lymph Nodes (MLN).

Background: Early diagnosis of axillary lymph node metastasis is very important for the recurrence and prognosis of breast cancer. Currently, Lymph node biopsy is one of the important methods to ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of ultrasound (US)-guided core biopsy of axillary nodes in patients with operable breast cancer. The ipsilateral axillae of 187 patients with ...

The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z1071 trial reported a 12.6% false-negative rate (FNR) for sentinel lymph node (SLN) surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in cN1 disease.