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Axillary Node Examination in Breast CancerClearing and Sectioning Technique in Search of Metastasis
NEIL G. PERKINSON, M.D.;
WALTER W. BRANDES, M.D.;
FRANK P. SHEPARD, Jr., M.D.
AMA Arch Surg. 1956;73(5):828-832.
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Prognostication for the patient undergoing radical mastectomy for carcinoma is based primarily on involvement of the axillary lymph nodes removed at time of dissection. The practical importance of this method need only be mentioned here, for most surgeons realize that when cancer of the breast is still limited to the breast itself the chances of being permanently cured of that lesion are decidedly better than if there is even minimal spread to axillary nodes.
The converse is also true; i. e., the patient whose operative specimen shows metastatic axillary involvement, particularly if several nodes are involved, has far poorer chance of permanent cure. Whether the primary lesion is really limited to the breast is difficult, if not impossible, to prove; however, the converse provides us with a relatively easy, rapid, inexpensive, and dependable method of judging the patient's course.
Although Monroe4 was able to relate better five-year results to
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Author Affiliations
Atlanta; New York
Former Assistant Resident, Pathology, The Roosevelt Hospital, New York, and Fellow in Surgery, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York (Dr. Perkinson); Attending Pathologist and Director of Laboratories, The Roosevelt Hospital, (Dr. Brandes); Former Resident, Pathology, The Roosevelt Hospital, New York; at present, Resident, Surgical Pathology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (Dr. Shepard).
Footnotes
Recorded for publication June 11, 1956.
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