The axilla: not a no-go zone

The Lancet

Volumn 337, Issue 8735, 1991, Pages 221-223

  Fentiman, I S ^a   Mansel, R E ^b  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXILLA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0025966474     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)92172-X     Document Type: Article

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