[Evaluation of radical lymphadenectomy in breast cancer]

The study was concerned with establishing parallel clinico-roentgeno-morphological features in diagnosis of lesions in axillary lymph nodes in 128 breast cancer patients. Complex evaluation of lymphographic and palpation evidence proved valuable because its application allows to avoid diagnostic errors for a certain stage of the disease. Also the results of X-ray postoperative evaluation of radicality of lymphadenectomies carried out in 100 mastectomies after Halsted, 22 mastectomies after Patey and 15 axillary lymphadenectomies are presented. Relatively less extent of excision for breast cancer was shown to involve higher risk of incomplete removal of apical nodes. It is emphasized that diagnosis improvement still remains a major aspect of small-scale surgical intervention.