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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2015

One-Step Nucleic Acid Amplification in Breast Cancer Sentinel Lymph Node: A Single Institutional Experience and a Short Review.

Tatiana Brambilla, Barbara Fiamengo, Corrado Tinterri, Alberto Testori, Massimo Maria Grassi, Amedeo Sciarra, Tommaso Abbate, Wolfgang Gatzemeier, Massimo Roncalli, Luca Di Tommaso

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Tatiana BrambillaPathology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Barbara FiamengoPathology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Corrado TinterriSenology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Alberto TestoriSenology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Massimo Maria GrassiSenology Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni , Bergamo , Italy.
Amedeo SciarraPathology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Tommaso AbbatePathology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Wolfgang GatzemeierSenology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Massimo RoncalliPathology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.
Luca Di TommasoPathology Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital , Milan , Italy.

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Abstract

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) examination is a standard in breast cancer patients, with several methods employed along its 20 years history, the last one represented by one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA). The latter is a intra-operative molecular assay searching for CK19 mRNA as a surrogate of metastatic cells. Our 3 years experience with OSNA (1122 patients) showed results overlapping those recorded in the same institution with a morphological evaluation (930 patients) of SLN. In detail, the data of OSNA were almost identical to those observed with standard post-operative procedure in terms of patients with positive SLN (30%) and micrometastatic/macrometastatic involvement of SLN (respectively, 38-45 and 62-55%). By contrast, when OSNA was compared to the standard intraoperatory procedure, it was superior in terms of accuracy, prompting the use of this molecular assay as a very valid, and reproducible for intra-operative evaluation of SLN. Further possibilities prompting the use of OSNA range from adhesion to quality control programs, saving of medical time, ability to predict, during surgery, additional nodal metastasis, and molecular bio-banking.

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accuracybreast cancerfrozen sectionmolecular analysismorphological analysispermanent sectionssentinel node examination

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PMCPMC4469115

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