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    Frozen Section and Imprint Cytology in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer

    Recent trends toward conservative surgery for breast cancer and increasing detection of smaller invasive malignancies have shifted the traditional surgical approach from mastectomy to lumpectomy, and from comp...

    Santo V. Nicosia MD, Charles E. Cox MD in Radioguided Surgery (2008)

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    Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Breast Cancer

    The term “sentinel node” was first used by Gould et al. in 1960 to describe the first node in the drainage pathway of a malignant tumor (1). In 1977, Cabanas proposed that sentinel lymph nodes could be removed an...

    Charles E. Cox MD, John M. Cox MD, Giuliano Mariani MD in Radioguided Surgery (2008)