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Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer using methylene blue dye manifests a short learning curve among experienced surgeons: a prospective tabular cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis

BACKGROUND: The benefits of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for breast cancer patients with histologically negative axillary nodes, in whom axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is thereby avoided, are now established. Low false negative rate, certainly with blue dye technique, mostly reflects the...

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Autores principales: East, Jeffrey M, Valentine, Christopher SP, Kanchev, Emil, Blake, Garfield O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19173714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-9-2