Clinical Study

The Axillary Nodal Harvest in Breast Cancer Surgery Is Unchanged by Sentinel Node Biopsy or the Timing of Surgery

Table 2

Outcome Measures. Group classification of patients by axillary procedure: group 1: primary axillary clearance; group 2: SLNB and dALND; group 3: SLNB and iALND.

Group 1Group 2Group 3Significance ( )

Total nodesMedian1414140.822
Positive nodesMedian2220.157