Can we use frozen section analysis of sentinel lymph nodes mapped with methylene blue dye for decision making upon one-time axillary dissection in breast carcinoma surgery in developing countries?
SLN-FSA enables adequate selection of patients for one-time axillary node dissection. MBD mapping technique is cheap, feasible and enables easy and precise detection of the first draining ALNs. Using FSA of SLNs mapped with MBD, patients with breast carcinoma benefit from complete surgical treatment during one hospitalization, the risk of undergoing anaesthesia twice is reduced, as well as the treatment cost, which is important in developing countries.
These findings indicate that age is not a relevant confounding factor for SERT availability as measured by (11)C-(+)McN5652 PET in healthy adults up to the age of about 35 y.