Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients with clinically negative lymph-nodes

Breast Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 259-262

  Motomura, Kazuyoshi ^a   Inaji, Hideo ^a   Komoike, Yoshifumi ^a   Kasugai, Tsutomu ^a   Nagumo, Sachiko ^a   Noguchi, Shinzaburo ^b   Koyama, Hiroki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomic location; Breast cancer; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001132078     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967180     Document Type: Article

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