Could radiotherapy play a major role in misidentification of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer recurrence?

Germana Lissidini; Giuseppe Trifirò; Paolo Veronesi; Chiara Grana; Stefano Zurrida; Viviana Galimberti; Giovanni Corso; Cecilia Vellani; Giovanni B Ivaldi

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2018.08.001

Could radiotherapy play a major role in misidentification of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer recurrence?

Germana Lissidini, Giuseppe Trifirò, Paolo Veronesi, Chiara Grana, Stefano Zurrida, Viviana Galimberti, Giovanni Corso, Cecilia Vellani, Giovanni B Ivaldi

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Abstract

Misidentification of sentinel lymph node via lymphoscintigraphy for breast cancer is an infrequent event. We analysed 35.022 consecutive procedures from a single institution and tried to find a correlation between failures of sentinel node identification and previous oncologic treatments received by the patients.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	237-238
Number of pages	2
Journal	Radiotherapy and Oncology
Volume	131
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2018.08.001
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019

Keywords

Adult
Aged
Axilla/diagnostic imaging
Breast Neoplasms/pathology
Female
Humans
Lymph Nodes/pathology
Lymphatic Metastasis
Lymphoscintigraphy/methods
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology
Sentinel Lymph Node/diagnostic imaging

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