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Research Journal of Medical Sciences

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The Clinical Impact of Ultrasound in Detecting Axillary Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients without Apparent Axillary Disease: A Study on Effectiveness

Nitinkumar Chaudhari, Manish Nagendra, Shahir Merchant and Manmeet Kaur
Page: 346-351 | Received 22 Nov 2023, Published online: 15 Dec 2023

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Abstract

The goal of performing preoperative ultrasonography on breast cancer patients who do not have clinical axillary illness is to find axillary lymph node metastases as reliably as possible. But it’s important to test how well ultrasound can detect axillary illness. Research participants were 400 women who had treatment for invasive breast cancer at tertiary care cancer institute. When it came time for staging, every patient had an ipsilateral axillary ultrasound. In addition to analyzing the preoperative ultrasonography descriptively the results of the cohort were compared with their corresponding histology and cytology data. All statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS V 22. The axillary ultrasound diagnostic index was determined with the following values sensitivity at 31.9%, specificity at 81.4%, positive predictive value (PPV) at 36.9%, negative predictive value (NPV) at 80.2% and an overall diagnostic accuracy of 70.4%. Among the patients, ductal invasive breast carcinoma emerged as the predominant histological type, accounting for 78.5% and T2 staging was assigned to 50.75% of the tumors. Patients with breast cancer who did not have any visible signs of axillary disease were not able to have their nodal status determined by axillary ultrasound in this study.

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Nitinkumar Chaudhari, Manish Nagendra, Shahir Merchant and Manmeet Kaur. The Clinical Impact of Ultrasound in Detecting Axillary Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients without Apparent Axillary Disease: A Study on Effectiveness.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218/makrjms.2023.12.346.351
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1815-9346/10.59218/makrjms.2023.12.346.351