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Carbon tattooing of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients before neoadjuvant chemotherapy: A retrospective analysis.

Mauro PorpigliaFulvio BorellaPierluigi ChieppaCarola BrinoAda AlaVincenzo MarraIsabella CastellanoChiara Benedetto
Published in: Tumori (2022)
These results confirmed that tattooing axillary lymph nodes has an acceptable identification rate. We also confirmed that this procedure, in addition to SLN biopsy, improves the accuracy of surgical axillary staging.
Keyphrases
  • lymph node
  • neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • sentinel lymph node
  • ultrasound guided
  • minimally invasive
  • fine needle aspiration
  • locally advanced
  • pet ct