title: Prognostic significance of immunohistochemically detected breast cancer node metastases in 218 patients.
abstract: Axillary lymph node metastases detected by immunohistochemistry in standard node-negative patients with breast carcinomas (13 out of 129 infiltrating ductal carcinomas and 37 out of 89 infiltrating lobular carcinomas) do not have any prognostic significance in patients followed up for a long time (respectively 24 and 18 years). Moreover, their pejorative significance in the literature is debatable since the groups and events taken into account are heterogeneous.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Institut Bergonié, Comprehensive Cancer Center, 180 rue de Saint-Genès, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France. mascarel@bergonie.org
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de Mascarel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: MacGrogan
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Picot
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mathoulin-Pelissier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001365:Axilla / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D018275:Carcinoma, Lobular / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D016019:Survival Analysis