Pre-operative needle biopsy of sentinel lymph nodes using intradermal microbubbles and contrast enhanced ultrasound in patients with breast cancer. AJR, August 2012, Vol. 199(2), p.465-470.
Sever, A.R., et al.
http://www.ajronline.org/content/199/2/465.abstract?rss=1
The purpose of this study was to assess whether sentinel lymph nodes that undergo targeted needle biopsy after identification by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) using intradermally injected microbubbles results in more node-positive breast cancer patients being diagnosed preoperatively. Furthermore, we sought to determine whether the addition of CEUS to gray-scale sonography of the axilla reduces the number of patients having axillary lymph node dissection as a second procedure.
