Axillary Dissection

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AD
Pronunciation
/ækˈsɪləri daɪˈsekʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. Methods We randomly assigned women with breast cancer to sentinel-lymph-node biopsy plus axillary dissection or sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone.
  2. It is important to recognize that axillary dissection is valuable both in planning therapy and in staging cancer.
  3. The fact that axillary dissection is not needed in women who have positive sentinel nodes is " counterintuitive and hard to accept," because it means not removing all the cancer, said Armando E.
  4. Long-Term Effects of Partial Axillary Dissection(AD) in Modified Radical Mastectomy of Breast Cancer
  5. All of them were performed sentinel lymph nodes biopsy before axillary dissection.

Other meanings of AD