Jansen L, Nieweg O E, Valdés Olmos R A, Rutgers E J, Peterse J L, de Vries J, Doting M H, Kroon B B
Department of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam.
Eur J Surg Oncol. 1998 Oct;24(5):445-6. doi: 10.1016/s0748-7983(98)92496-9.
Sentinel node biopsy is a less invasive technique for staging breast cancer than complete axillary lymph-node dissection and may be as accurate. In the case of a 71-year-old woman with a T1 breast cancer, sentinel node biopsy improved staging. Metastases were discovered in sentinel nodes outside the axilla while the axillary nodes were tumour-free.
