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Table 5 Studies of sentinel node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with FNA proved node-positive breast cancer

From: Sentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: retrospective comparative evaluation of clinically axillary lymph node positive and negative patients, including those with axillary lymph node metastases confirmed by fine needle aspiration

Authors

Time

No. of cases

Detection rate

FNR

Shen [7]

2007

69

92.8 %

25 %

Newman [8]

2007

54

98 %

8 %

Yagata [9]

2013

95

85.3 %

15.7 %

Park [10]

2013

178

94.9 %

22 %

Boileau [11]

2015

153

87.6 %

8.4 %

Kim [12]

2015

120

96 %

10 %

Present study

 

48

95.8 %

36 %