Lymphatic mapping: A technique providing accurate staging for breast cancer

Breast Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-154

  Dauway, Emilia L ^a,b   Giuliano, Rosemary ^a,b   Pendas, Solange ^a,b   Haddad, Fadi ^a,b   Costello, Damon ^a,b   Cox, Charles E ^a,b   Berman, Claudia ^a,b   Ku, Ni Ni ^a,c   Reintgen, Douglas S ^a,b  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axilla; Breast cancer; Nodal staging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001117596     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02966923     Document Type: Review

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