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Sensitivity, Specificity and the Diagnostic Accuracy of PET/CT for Axillary Staging in Patients With Stage I-III Cancer: A Systematic Review of The Literature.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- 18F-FDG PET/CT Semiquantitative and Radiomic Features for Assessing Pathologic Axillary Lymph Node Status in Clinical Stage I-III Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Pooled it
- Construction of a comprehensive predictive model for axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer: a retrospective study.BMC cancer · 2023Trial
- Exceptional Locoregional Pathological Response in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Treated With Palliative Platinum-Based Chemotherapy.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
- Diagnostic performance ofEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of PET Imaging for Lymph Node Detection in Breast cancer patients undergoing Upfront Surgery: A Single-Institution Analysis of Breast Cancer Patients.F1000Research · 2026Article
- Multi-parametric MRI habitat radiomics with interpretable machine learning for early prediction of axillary lymph node metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Endometrial Carcinoma Unveiling Breast Carcinoma in a Postmenopausal Female: A Case of Synchronous Malignancy.Ochsner journal · 2026Article
- An update on recent advances in fluorescent materials for fluorescence molecular imaging: a review.RSC advances · 2025Review
- Harnessing the Power of Metabolomics for Precision Oncology: Current Advances and Future Directions.Cells · 2025Review
- Can we skip invasive biopsy of sentinel lymph nodes? A preliminary investigation to predict sentinel lymph node status using PET/CT-based radiomics.BMC cancer · 2024Article
- Peritumoral edema enhances MRI-based deep learning radiomic model for axillary lymph node metastasis burden prediction in breast cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- PET Molecular Imaging in Breast Cancer: Current Applications and Future Perspectives.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Contralateral lymph node metastasis in recurrent ipsilateral breast cancer with Lynch syndrome: a locoregional event.World journal of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- The Role of PET/CT in Breast Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- State of the Art in 2022 PET/CT in Breast Cancer: A Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Modern Imaging Techniques in the Study and Disease Diagnosis of the Mammary Glands of Animals.Veterinary sciences · 2023Review
- Prone versus Supine FDG PET/CT in the Staging of Breast Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Escalating de-escalation in breast cancer treatment.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2022Article
- Feasibility of sentinel lymph node biopsy omission after integration ofCancer biology & medicine · 2022Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
aimAxillary lymph node (ALN) status plays a key role in the staging of breast cancer. Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) using 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose ( MATERIALS AND
methodsPubMed, Ovid and Cochrane were searched systematically up until August 2020. Included papers had true positive (TP), false positive (FP), true negative (TN) and false negative (FN) rates, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV).
resultsNine studies (n=1486) were included, showing: i) sensitivity=52.2%, ii) specificity=91.6%, iii) PPV=77.8%, iv) NPV=77.2, and v) accuracy=77.3%.
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