A Positive Node on Ultrasound‐Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Predicts Higher Nodal Burden Than a Positive Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Carcinoma

Abstract

Patients with positive USFNAC have more aggressive clinico-pathological characteristics and higher nodal burden compared to SLNB-positive patients. Currently, the authors advocate that patients not receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with a positive USFNAC, should proceed directly to an axillary ALND.