D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Before the advent of SLN biopsy, axillary dissection was ...
Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is a relatively new breast cancer procedure. It allows surgical oncologists to specifically locate a lymph node that contained cancer before chemotherapy, remove it ...
Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases have been compromised by limited ...
MIAMI BEACH -- The surgical dogma favoring axillary dissection in breast cancer continues to give way to more selective data-driven strategies that allow more women to avoid axillary surgery, an ...
Patients with early-stage breast cancer who had cancer detected in a sentinel lymph node biopsy had comparable 10-year recurrence and survival rates following either axillary radiotherapy or axillary ...
Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...
With growth in the use of percutaneous axillary arterial access in large-bore aortic valve interventions, endovascular aortic repair, and mechanical circulatory support (MCS) placement, it’s time to ...