{"id":2559,"date":"2021-02-08T23:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:55:13","slug":"what-is-sentinel-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/what-is-sentinel-node\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sentinel Node?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Sentinel Node<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Sentinel<\/strong> Node Biopsy is a technique that has been established as the gold <\/span>standard in axillary nodes surgery for over 20 years.<\/span>
\nBy identifying the Sentinel node\/ portal (the first node) the surgeon detects if <\/span>there is nodal involvement or not.<\/span>
\n70% of cases, the nodes prove negative therefor we don`t need further nodal <\/span>surgery. So we save these 70% of patients from unnecessary drains, pain, hospital <\/span>stay, infection and long term complications like arm awelling.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Sentinel Node \u00a0 Sentinel Node Biopsy is a technique that has been established as the gold standard in axillary nodes surgery for over 20 years. By identifying the Sentinel node\/ portal (the first node) the surgeon detects if there is nodal involvement or not. 70% of cases, the nodes prove negative therefor we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/breast_cancer_screening_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashrafelzayat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}