Relationship between Upper Extremity Lymphatic Drainage and Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Patients with Breast Cancer

Figure 1

Equivalent findings on sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy ((a), left panels) and axillary reverse mapping (ARM) ((a), right panels). A diagram of the lymphatics is shown in (b); the blue-colored lymphatic duct is that of the upper limb. Yellow arrows indicate biopsied SLNs, while white arrows indicate ARM-detected nodes.

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