Should post neoadjuvant chemotherapy patients with and without clinically palpable nodes be clubbed together while analysing identification rates and false negative rates in sentinel lymph node biopsy?

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¹ Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Electronic address: chaitra_chaitu@yahoo.co.in.
² Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Electronic address: saba@sgpgi.ac.in.
³ Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Electronic address: gauravbsi@gmail.com.

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C Sonthineni et al. Am J Surg. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug;216(2):382-383.

doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.02.002. Epub 2017 Feb 7.

¹ Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Electronic address: chaitra_chaitu@yahoo.co.in.
² Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Electronic address: saba@sgpgi.ac.in.
³ Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Electronic address: gauravbsi@gmail.com.

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