Current Role of Intraoperative Frozen Section Examination of Sentinel Lymph Node in Early Breast Cancer.

Calogero CipollaGiuseppa GraceffaDaniela CabibiGiuseppe GangiMario LatteriMaria Rosaria ValerioSalvatore Vieni

Published in: Anticancer research (2020)

Frozen section continues to be very useful in the intraoperative assessment of the SLN, offering a high sensitivity and diagnostic accuracy. Omission of ALND in 24.4% of patients who met the ACOSOG Z0011 criteria would have resulted in their undertreatment.

Keyphrases

sentinel lymph node
early breast cancer
lymph node
early stage
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
patients undergoing
tyrosine kinase
squamous cell carcinoma
radiation therapy
locally advanced
rectal cancer