The Halsted radical mastectomy included an en bloc resection of axillary contents. Now, more than a century later, there is little controversy about the use of breast-conserving surgical treatments in ...

Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases have been compromised by limited ...

The axilla is the space in the interval marking the junction of the upper arm and the chest wall. It is a key area because many important neurovascular structures pass through it. It is pyramidal in ...