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Is blue dye still required during sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer?

BACKGROUND: In early breast cancer, the optimal technique for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the combined technique (radioisotope and Patent Blue V) which achieves high identification rates. Despite this, many centres have decided to stop using blue dye due to blue-dye-related complications (t...

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Autores principales: Peek, Mirjam CL, Kovacs, Tibor, Baker, Rose, Hamed, Hisham, Kothari, Ash, Douek, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27729939
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.674