Massive campaigns of screening of breast pathologies improved early diagnosis of breast cancers. Most of these cancers are small-sized (T1) and seldom show intraoperative nodal involvement. Sentinel node biopsy is the elective choice in the above mentioned cases because, if negative, it avoids axillary dissection. International literature reports rates of false negative sentinel node biopsy ran...

INTRODUCTION Malignant melanoma is one of the most rapidly increasing cancer types globally, and it is by far the most serious skin cancer. Patients with a melanoma ≥ 1 mm in Breslow thickness are offered sentinel node (SN) biopsy and subsequent radical lymph node dissection if the biopsy is positive. The objective in the present paper was to describe post-operative complications in this group ...

7189 OX40 Is a Potent Immune-Stimulating Target in Late-Stage Cancer Patients Brendan D. Curti, Magdalena Kovacsovics-Bankowski, Nicholas Morris, Edwin Walker, Lana Chisholm, Kevin Floyd, Joshua Walker, Iliana Gonzalez, Tanisha Meeuwsen, Bernard A. Fox, Tarsem Moudgil, William Miller, Daniel Haley, Todd Coffey, Brenda Fisher, Laurie Delanty-Miller, Nicole Rymarchyk, Tracy Kelly, Todd Crocenzi, ...

Radiol Bras. 2016 Jan/Fev;49(1):IX Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women. Recently, the Brazilian radiological literature has been extremely concerned with the relevance of the role played by imaging methods in the improvement of breast cancer diagnosis. In the last decades, the treatment for breast cancer has undergone major changes, with more conservative surgeries demonst...

BACKGROUND Seroma formation following modified radical mastectomy with axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer is a most common wound complication. In our experience seroma occurs in approximately 50% of patients undergoing mastectomy. Postmastectomy seromas usually vanishes within a few weeks after operation. CASE PRESENTATION In this report we present the case of a 73 year old woma...

In recent 30 years the understanding of breast cancer surgery (BCS) underwent significant development from radical mastectomy to organ-preserving surgery. So, in nowadays organ-preserving surgery becomes the “gold standart” in these patients. Today, more than half of the newly diagnosed BC are suitable for quadrantectomy or lumpectomy with axillary lymph node dissection and subsequent radiation...

The axillary technique is the most popular approach to breast augmentation among Korean women. Transaxillary breast augmentation is now conducted with sharp electrocautery dissection under direct endoscopic vision throughout the entire process. The aims of this method are clear: both a bloodless pocket and a sharp non-traumatic dissection. Round textured or anatomical cohesive gel implants have...

BACKGROUND Most inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) patients have axillary disease at presentation. Current standard is axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). Advances in NACT have improved pathologic complete response (pCR) rates increasing interest in performing sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy (SLNB). Previous studies on SLNB for IBC patients did not assess...

Validation of sentinel lymph node (SLN) dissection (SLND) as an alternative to axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has been a significant advance in the surgical management of breast cancer. As detailed in the review by Pilewskie and Morrow,[1] clinical trials have proven that in clinically node-negative patients, SLND provides accurate staging with less morbidity, and that ALND can be omitte...

The incidence of melanoma is increasing rapidly in the United States. Sentinel lymph node biopsy is an important diagnostic tool in the treatment and staging of melanoma. However, many patients with melanoma will have had lymph node surgery for previous melanoma or breast cancer. We set out to examine alterations in drainage patterns in patients with previous axillary dissection for breast canc...