Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33982209›Full record

ReviewBreast cancer research and treatment2021

New horizons in imaging and surgical assessment of breast cancer lymph node metastasis.

Firouzeh Arjmandi, Ann Mootz, Deborah Farr, Sangeetha Reddy, Basak Dogan

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Review in Breast cancer research and treatment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The value of sentinel lymph-node biopsy after neoadjuvant therapy: an overview.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Firouzeh ArjmandiUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390-8896, USA. Firouzeh.arjmandi@utsouthwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-1401
Ann MootzUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390-8896, USA.
Deborah FarrUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390-8896, USA.
Sangeetha ReddyUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390-8896, USA.
Basak DoganUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390-8896, USA.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USSouthwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Axillary nodal status is one of the most important prognostic factors in breast cancer. While sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a safe and validated procedure for clinically node-negative patients, axillary management of clinically node-positive patients has been more controversial. Patients with clinically detected axillary metastases often benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Those who convert to node-negative disease following NAC are important to identify, since they can often be spared significant morbidity from axillary dissection. SLNB has shown widely varying false-negative rates (FNR) but with the use of dual mapping and surgical biopsy of 3 or more nodes, it is considered an acceptable method to stage the axilla in clinically node-positive patients who receive NAC. Various methods including targeted axillary dissection (TAD) have been shown to decrease the FNR of SLNB. We will review appropriate methods to identify a metastatic node and subsequent ultrasound-guided biopsy with tissue marking techniques. We underscore key points in monitoring axillary response, techniques to accurately localize the biopsied and clipped known metastatic node for surgical excision and the effect of various methods in reducing the FNR of SLNB, including the emerging concept of TAD on patient care.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsAxillaFemaleHumansLymphatic MetastasisLymph Node ExcisionLymph NodesNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm StagingSentinel Lymph Node BiopsyAxillary lymphadenopathyAxillary stagingBreast cancerNeoadjuvant chemotherapyTargeted axillary dissectionUltrasound-guided biopsy

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PMID33982209
OpenAlexW3162518808

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