Preoperative morphological diagnosis of axillary lymph nodes in a breast center consultation service: evaluation of fine-needle aspiration and core biopsy techniques.
Georg-Peter BreitbachJulia Helen UhlmannRainer M BohleIngolf Juhasz-BössBarbara LinxweilerFerenc Zoltan TakacsErich-Franz SolomayerStephanie Juhasz-BössPublished in: Archives of gynecology and obstetrics (2019)
Preoperative CB and alternative FNA are valuable complementary methods of predicting ALN involvement in breast cancer patients and may spare the patient unnecessary ALN dissection.