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Axillary clearance has for many decades been an integral part of breast cancer surgery. In fact, en bloc resection of the breast together with its lymph nodes draining into the axilla was probably the first example of good oncologic surgery.
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Harder, F., Zuber, M., Kocher, T., Torhorst, J. (1998). Endoscopic Surgery to the Axilla — A Substitute for Conventional Axillary Clearance?. In: Senn, HJ., Gelber, R.D., Goldhirsch, A., Thürlimann, B. (eds) Adjuvant Therapy of Primary Breast Cancer VI. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45769-2_17
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