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False negative sentinel node procedure established through palpation of the biopsy wound

P J Tanis¹, O E Nieweg, J W Merkus

¹Department of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands. ptanis@nki.nl

European Journal of Surgical Oncology : the Journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology

|November 18, 2000

Abstract:

We describe our first false negative sentinel node biopsy after ceasing confirmatory axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer. Palpation of the axilla through the biopsy wound prevented understaging.

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