Carcoforo P, Feggi L, Sartori A, Navarra G, Pozza E, Donini I
Dept. of General Surgery, University of Ferrara, Italy.
J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 1999 Mar;18(1):75-7.
The Authors present the preliminary results of a study aimed at verifying the effectiveness of lymphatic mapping for the dissection of the sentinel lymph node in the treatment of breast carcinoma. The lymphoscintigraphy method was used in the study performed on 24 patients to evidence the sentinel lymph node. The sentinel lymph node was identified in 23/24 patients (95,8%), with 100% accuracy, negative predictions were 100% (21/21). Consistently with the low number of cases treated, our results seem to guarantee the same prognostic accuracy obtained using radical lymphadenectomy extended to the third lymph node level.
作者展示了一项研究的初步结果，该研究旨在验证淋巴绘图在乳腺癌治疗中用于前哨淋巴结清扫的有效性。在对24例患者进行的研究中使用了淋巴闪烁造影法来确定前哨淋巴结。24例患者中有23例（95.8%）识别出了前哨淋巴结，准确率为100%，阴性预测率为100%（21/21）。与所治疗的病例数较少一致，我们的结果似乎保证了与将根治性淋巴结清扫扩展至第三级淋巴结时所获得的相同预后准确性。
