Research Article
Relationship between Upper Extremity Lymphatic Drainage and Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Patients with Breast Cancer
| | | SLNB+ARM+ALND
(n=44) |
| | Blue SLN | 80 | | Mean number of blue SLNs | 1.8 | | Blue SLN positive for malignancy | 21 |
| | Fluorescent ARM nodes | 182 | | Mean number of ARM nodes | 4.1 | | ARM nodes histologically positive | 17 | | ARM-SLN | 5 | | ARM-posterior SLN | 4 |
| | Distance between ARM nodes and SLN | | | D1 (0 cm) | 3 | | D2 (>0 and ≤1 cm) | 7 | | D3 (>1 and ≤2 cm) | 10 | | D4 (>2 and ≤3 cm) | 7 | | D5 (>3 and ≤4 cm) | 3 | | D6 (>4 and ≤5 cm) | 3 | | D7 (>5 cm) | 2 |
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ARM, axillary reverse mapping, SLN, sentinel lymph node; SLNB, sentinel lymph node biopsy; ALND, axillary lymph node dissection; D, closest distance between the SLNs and ARM-detected nodes.
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