[The role of tele-thoracoscopic parasternal lympho-dissection in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer].

The outcomes of treatment were studied in 190 patients with breast cancer who had undergone radical mastectomy with telethoracoscopic parasternal lymphodissection. An association of this parameter with the sizes of a primary tumor, with the extent of damage to the axillary lymph collector, with the histological pattern of a tumor, and with the site of a primary focus was analyzed. Radical removal of the parasternal lymphatic chain was proved by scintimammography in the pre- and postoperative periods.