Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration of Clinically Negative Lymph Nodes Versus Sentinel Node Mapping in Patients at High Risk for Axillary Metastasis
- 29 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Vol. 13 (12) , 1545-1552
- https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-006-9095-8
Abstract
Background Sonographically directed fine-needle aspiration is a less invasive and less costly alternative to sentinel node (SN) mapping in breast cancer patients at high risk for metastatic disease...Keywords
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