Histopathologic validation of the sentinel lymph node hypothesis for breast carcinoma.

Background and ObjectiveThe sentinel node hypothesis assumes that a primary tumor drains to a specific lymph node in the regional lymphatic basin. To determine whether the sentinel node is indeed the node most likely to harbor an axillary metastasis from breast carcinoma, the authors used cytokerati

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