Intraoperative examination of sentinel lymph nodes by ultrarapid immunohistochemistry.

The recently developed method of ultrarapid immunohistochemistry (IHC) was applied to the intraoperative examination of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in breast cancer patients. In a prospective study of 50 patients with invasive breast carcinomas, a total of 60 SLNs were studied. Among them, 33 SLNs from 30 patients were studied intraoperatively using a direct immunoperoxidase method with anticytokeratin antibody clone MNF116.