The role of tele-thoracoscopic parasternal lympho-dissection in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer
Nechushkin, M.I.; Trigolosov, A.V.; Uĭmanov, V.A.; Ermilova, V.D.; Vishnevskaia, I.V.; Talakhadze, N.T.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 2002(1): 60-64
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 11882975 Document Number: 541999
The outcomes of treatment were studied in 190 patients with breast cancer who had undergone radical mastectomy with telethoracoscopic parasternal lymphodissection. An association of this parameter with the sizes of a primary tumor, with the extent of damage to the axillary lymph collector, with the histological pattern of a tumor, and with the site of a primary focus was analyzed. Radical removal of the parasternal lymphatic chain was proved by scintimammography in the pre- and postoperative periods. The high diagnostic value of telethoracoscopic parasternal lymphodissection was shown as a miniinvasive axilliary of radical mastectomy for breast cancer, which makes it possible to establish a stage of the disease reliably and to plan chemoradiation treatment adequately.