Alvaro Ibarra V
Anatomopatólogo Jefe, Servicio de AnatomÃa Patológica ClÃnica las Condes, USA
Title: Cytological intraoperative study of surgical margins and sentinel nodes in breast pathology
Biography
Biography: Alvaro Ibarra V
Abstract
The study of surgical margins in breast pathology is very important, because a diagnosis of negativity or positivity permits to make the best surgical procedure, obtaining in the majority of cases an excellent correlation with the results of definitive histopathological report. The intraoperative study of sentinel axillary nodes, in most of the cases, allows resolving in one surgical time, the regional treatment in breast cancer. We will show our experience with cytological study in more than eight hundreds of cases of breast tumors and sentinel axillary nodes, with simple and efficient technics.