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Quantification of Tumor Cell Adhesion in Lymph Node Cryosections
Published on: February 9, 2020
[Breast cancer and lymph node metastasis: relation of lymph node dimensions and metastasis]
F Cappello1, E Barresi, A Martorana
1Istituto di Anatomia ed Istologia Patologica, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
Pathologica
|June 8, 2000
Abstract:
The Authors have examined 1159 lymph nodes obtained from 64 cases of breast carcinoma to value the presence of a correlation between the insurgence of metastases and lymph node dimensions. Metastases were more frequent in larger lymph nodes. Nevertheless, metastases were also present in small (< 5 mm) or very small (< 2 mm) lymph nodes. This indicates the importance to carefully examine small lymph nodes during gross examination and to obtain multiple sections from them.
