From: Altered lymphatic drainage patterns in re-operative sentinel lymph node biopsy for ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence
Number of lymph nodes removed in prior surgery
The visualization rate of re-SLNsa
Non-AX groupb
0
100% (12/12)
1–2
94.3% (33/35)
3–6
93.8% (30/32)
AX groupc
8–19
91.7% (22/24)
20 or greater
71.4% (20/28)