Motomura Kazuyoshi, Komoike Yoshifumi, Nagumo Sachiko, Kasugai Tsutomu, Hasegawa Yoshihisa, Inaji Hideo, Noguchi Shinzaburo, Koyama Hiroki
Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
Breast Cancer. 2002;9(4):337-43. doi: 10.1007/BF02967614.
The role of sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer has increased over the last few years. Sentinel nodes can predict the status of all axillary lymph nodes precisely and select patients with negative nodes for whom axillary dissection is unnecessary. Many problems remain, such as the ideal injection technique, ideal agents, and ideal histological detection of sentinel node metastases, and must be addressed before sentinel node biopsy becomes the standard of care for patients with breast cancer.
前哨淋巴结活检在乳腺癌中的作用在过去几年有所增加。前哨淋巴结能够准确预测所有腋窝淋巴结的状态，并筛选出腋窝淋巴结阴性、无需进行腋窝清扫术的患者。然而，仍存在许多问题，如理想的注射技术、理想的示踪剂以及前哨淋巴结转移的理想组织学检测方法等。在将前哨淋巴结活检确立为乳腺癌患者的标准治疗方法之前，这些问题必须得到解决。
