Sentinel node positive breast cancer patients who do not undergo axillary dissection: are they different?

Background: Little data address outcome in patients with sentinel lymph node (SN) metastases without completion axillary lymph node dissection (CALND). This study was designed to assess locoregional recurrence in patients with positive SNs who did not undergo CALND.

Methods: An IRB-approved, retrospective chart review was conducted on breast cancer patients with a positive SN.

A single-center experience with inflammatory breast cancer, 1985-2003.

Hypothesis: "Up-front" surgery improves survival in inflammatory breast cancer (IBC).

Design: Retrospective cohort, 1985-2003.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Sensitivity and utility of parathyroid scintigraphy in patients with primary versus secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism.

Introduction: Parathyroid scintigraphy (PS) may be used to localize hyperactive parathyroid glands preoperatively. Performance of PS in the setting of secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is not well quantified. The performance of PS in secondary/tertiary HPT versus primary HPT may reflect physiologic as well as radiopharmaceutical kinetic differences between multigland hyperplasia versus adenoma.

Breast biopsy utilization: a population-based study.

Background: Breast biopsy, to determine the nature of a clinical or radiographic breast abnormality, was presumed to have increased in frequency with the widespread use of screening mammography. However, scant data exist regarding the utilization of breast biopsies in the community population.

Methods: Through the resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project, the medical records of women 18 years and older who had a breast biopsy from January 1, 1988, through December 31, 1999, were reviewed for the type of biopsy, presentation at biopsy, and tissue pathological findings.