Cancer Control 601 The emergence of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy as an alternative method to axillary dissection for staging the axilla in breast cancer patients has brought the value of axillary dissection into close scrutiny. In addition, it has stimulated the assessment of the biologic implications of micrometastatic disease to lymph nodes. Historical review of SLN technology demonstrate...

After mastectomy and axillary node dissection, chylous leakage is rare. However, considerable anatomical variation in the termination of the thoracic duct has been reported. Hence, during breast surgery, injury to the lateral terminating branch is not unlikely and might lead to retrograde chyle leak. Herein, we describe a patient who had a chylous leakage at her wound site after a left simple m...

Steward-Treves syndrome is a cutaneous angiosarcoma that usually appears after long evolution of a lymphoedema after mastectomy for mammary neoplasia associated with an axillary dissection. This is a rare disease develop most of the time in upper arm and often confounded with cutaneous metastasis. Only the biopsy and immunohistochemical study confirm the diagnosis. The treatment is surgical and...

In non-inflammatory locally advanced breast cancer, treatment typically includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy allows in vivo assessment of primary tumor response to chemotherapy and is achieved the early control of micrometastatic disease. It also significantly improves surgical outcomes. Patients achieving pathologic complete response after...

HYPOTHESIS Sentinel lymph node (SN) biopsy performed with local anesthesia has a positive effect on patients' quality of life and on treatment management for early-stage breast carcinoma. This method represents an interesting development in breast-conserving surgery. DESIGN We performed SN biopsy with local anesthesia in selected patients to test the feasibility of the technique and its impac...

Aerial plant architecture is predominantly determined by shoot branching and leaf morphology, which are governed by apparently unrelated developmental processes, axillary meristem formation, and leaf dissection. Here, we show that in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), these processes share essential functions in boundary establishment. Potato leaf (C), a key regulator of leaf dissection, was identi...

BACKGROUND We combined transapical cannulation and right axillary artery cannulation in the repair of acute type A aortic dissection in order to reduce mortality and morbidity in the presence of risk of malperfusion. Early and midterm outcomes were evaluated. METHODS Between October 2009 and March 2012, 23 aortic dissection patients (age, 54.3 ± 13.5 years) received graft replacement using a ...

During routine dissection of an approximately 50-year-old male cadaver for the undergraduate medical students at Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, we came across a variation in branching pattern of right axillary artery. The second part of axillary artery gave rise to a common trunk which divided into the subscapular and lateral thoracic arteries. The third part of ri...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the protective effects of nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and steroids on seroma formation after mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection in rats. Methods: Mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection were applied to the rats. Thirty rats enrolled in the study were randomly divided into three groups of 10 each. Group I patients rec...