Comparing Radical Mastectomy with Quadrantectomy, Axillary Dissection, and Radiotherapy in Patients with Small Cancers of the Breast

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 305, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 6-11

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Saccozzi, Roberto ^a   Del Vecchio, Marcella ^a   Banfi, Alberto ^a   Clemente, Claudio ^a   de Lena, Mario ^a   Gallus, Giuseppe ^a   Greco, Marco ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Marubini, Ettore ^a   Muscolino, Giuseppe ^a   Rilke, Franco ^a   Salvadori, Bruno ^a   Zecchini, Annamaria ^a   Zucali, Roberto ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE EXTIRPATION; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY;

EID: 0019426441     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198107023050102     Document Type: Article

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