2 results match your criteria: "Second Department of Surgery - Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Surgical Endoscopy[Affiliation]"
Lymphatic mapping in patients with primary or recurrent breast cancer following previous axillary surgery.
Eur J Surg Oncol
August 2008
Second Department of Surgery - Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Surgical Endoscopy, Allgemein Öffentliches Krankenhaus Linz, Austria.
Aims: To evaluate the feasibility of lymphatic mapping in breast cancer patients after previous axillary surgery and to identify parameters associated with mapping failure.
Methods: Lymphatic mapping using peritumoural injection of blue dye and a radiocolloid was attempted in 30 patients with primary (n=7) or recurrent (n=23) breast cancer and a history of previous axillary lymph node dissection or sentinel node biopsy.
Results: Lymphatic mapping identified a mean number of 1.
Background And Objectives: Occult invasive cancer found in reduction mammaplasty specimen in the contralateral breast in breast cancer patients requires axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) to assess the lymph node status. Routine Sentinel node (SN) biopsy in these patients may avoid secondary ALND when an occult cancer is found and the SN is negative in the permanent histological examination.
Methods: One hundred sixty-nine breast cancer patients underwent contralateral reduction mammaplasty for symmetrization and with SN biopsy of the non-cancer breast.