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Breast Cancer
Intraoperative frozen sections of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer examined
April 28th, 2005
Scientists examined the intraoperative frozen sections of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer. "The study presents the results from intraoperative frozen section assessment of axillary sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in breast cancer. Routine histological frozen sections from one level were used, two sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Immunohistochemistry for cytokeratins was applied to the permanent SLN paraffin sections only," investigators in Denmark reported. "Axillary dissection was performed on all SLN-positive cases regardless of the size of the metastatic deposits. With a detection rate of 83%, 272 patients entered the study over a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-28)
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