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What are possible causes of a false negative laboratory report after a sentinel lymph node biopsy?
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poor timing of the dye injection, the way in which the pathologist prepared the tissue for examination, or the existence of previously undiscovered sentinel nodes.
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What node biopsy is performed a the beginning of the treatment of breast cancer?
sentinel
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