Would you go back and do an axillary lymph node dissection if a sentinel lymph node biopsy showed a single lymph node with extracapsular extension?
i.e. 1/1 node with ECE
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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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For microscopic ECE, would manage with comprehensive RNI but if gross ECE, would favor dissection and then RT.
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Surgical Oncology · Duke University Medical Center
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I would agree that omission of axillary dissection for pathologic extranodal extension on sentinel node biopsy for a clinically negative axilla is appropriate based on the Z11 trial. Patients with gross extranodal extension (ie. matted lymph nodes) were excluded from the study but microscopic extran...
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