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But in patients undergoing upfront surgery, again, with early-stage disease, clinically node-negative disease, the guidelines states that preoperative axillary ultrasound staging is not recommended.

If we can use ultrasound to stage the axilla and identify metastatic disease, we can save some women the additional surgery," says Alexis Nees, M.D., clinical assistant professor of Radiology at ...

In the INSEMA trial, patients with newly diagnosed, clinically node-negative stage T1-2 breast cancer were randomized to SLNB or no axillary surgery. After a median follow-up of 73.6 months, the 5 ...

Axillary vein puncture for cardiac device lead implant, under ultrasound guidance, was more expeditious with a better success rate than dissection of the cephalic vein in a small, randomized study.

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Unfortunately, axillary imaging using ultrasound, MRI, and positron emission tomography still has limited accuracy in the assessment of pAxCR unless combined with a fine-needle aspiration cytology ...

They included women with cT1N0 hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer and a negative axillary ultrasound treated between 2016 and 2023. These patients would have been eligible for ...

The 1,335 patients assigned to the intervention group did not. All patients underwent preoperative axillary ultrasound. National guidelines dictated use of adjuvant radiotherapy.

Omitting Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Early Breast Cancer — Two large trials, real-world data inform clinical decision-making by Wayne Kuznar, Contributing Writer December 23, 2024 ...