Evaluation of Sentinel Lymph Node Dose Distribution in 3D Conformal Radiotherapy Techniques in 67 pN0 Breast Cancer Patients

Table 3

Literature review with details regarding planning mode, axillary findings, volume, and dose; n/g = not given; SN = sentinel node; percentage of prescribed breast dose.

Author		Axillary region	Type of border (clip/anatomical)	TNM	Planning mode	Volume	Dose (mean value)
Orecchia et al. [5]	15	Level I	Anatomical (SN was clipped as caudal border)	N0 (sn)	CT-based	28.9 cm^3	25 Gy
	50 total		Clip/anatomical		CT-based 3D	146.3 cm^3 (anatomically)	n/g
Reed et al. [7]	32	SN		N0 (sn)
	18	Level I & II		≤N1		104.8 cm^3 (clip)	n/g
	106 total	SN	Clip		CT based
Rabinovitch et al. [6]	94			N0 (sn)		n/g	n/g
	12			SN+		n/g	n/g
Krasin et al. [4]	25
	9	SN	Anatomical	n/g	CT based 2D	50 cm^3 (anatomically)	32 Gy
	16	Level I	Clip/anatomical	n/g
						13 cm^3 (clip)	12.9 Gy
	64				CT based
Schlembach et al. [8]	26	SN	Clip	n/g		n/g	98%
	39	Level I & II	Clip	n/g		n/g	98%

SN+ = positive sentinel node; = number of patients.