Mastectomy with axillary clearance versus mastectomy without it. Late results of a trial in which patients had no adjuvant chemo-, radio- or endocrine therapy

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 670-674

  Dent, D M ^a   Gudgeon, C A ^a   Murray, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0029798780     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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