Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

Review Article

Accuracy and Utility of Preoperative Ultrasound-Guided Axillary Lymph Node Biopsy for Invasive Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Basic information and the patient information in the literature.


	Country	Language	Number of patients	Preoperative ultrasound-guided biopsy

Osanai [29]	Japan	English	31	US-CNB
Britton et al. [30]	U.K.	English	142	CB, SLN, ALND
Engohan-Aloghe et al. [31]	Belgium	English	71	US, ALND, USG-FNA
Evans and Lyons [32]	U.K.	English	1562	US
Jankowski et al. [33]	France	English	121	SLNB, ALND
Novak et al. [34]	Slovenia	English	102	US-FNAB, AUS
Morrow et al. [35]	U.K.	English	5076	AUS, FNAC
Kim et al. [36]	Korea	English	142	US, US-FNA
Cowher et al. [37]	U.S.A	English	152	AUS
Afzal et al. [38]	Pakistan	English	50	SLNB
Bode and Rissanen [39]	Finland	English	25	US, CNB
Wu et al. [40]	Taiwan, China	English	513	US-CNB
O’Leary [41]	—	English	113	CNB
Rautiainen et al. [42]	Finland	English	54	US-CNB
Park et al. [43]	Korea	English	3124	US-14GCNB
Tahir et al. [44]	U.K.	English	197	US-FNAC
Rautiainen et al. [42]	Finland	English	178	US-FNAB, CNB
Topps et al. [45]	U.K.	English	<417	AUS-FNA, AUS-SNB, AUS-ALND
Zheng et al. [46]	Canada	English	300	US-CB

Note. US-CNB, ultrasound-guided automated percutaneous core needle biopsy. CB, core biopsy. SLN, sentinel lymph node. ALND, axillary lymph node dissection. USG-FNA, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration. US, ultrasonography. UNB, core needle biopsy. SLNB, sentinel lymph node biopsy. US-FNAB, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy. AUS, axillary ultrasonography. FNAC, fine needle cytology. US-FNA, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration. CNB, core needle biopsy. US-CNB, ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy. US-UNB, ultrasound guided-axillary lymph node core biopsy. US-14GCNB, ultrasound guided-14-gauge core needle biopsy. US-FNAC, ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy. US-CNB, ultrasound-guided axillary lymph node core biopsy. AUS-FNA, axillary ultrasound-fine needle aspiration. AUS-SNB, axillary ultrasound-sentinel needle biopsy. AUS-ALND, axillary ultrasound-axillary lymph node dissection. US-CB, ultrasound-guided core biopsy.