Lymph node revealing solution: A new method for detection of minute axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer specimens

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1387-1390

  Koren, Rumelia ^a,b   Kyzer, Shlomo ^a,b   Paz, Adrian ^a,b   Veltman, Vladimir ^a,b   Klein, Baruch ^a,b   Gal, Rivka ^a,b,c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph nodes; Breast cancer; Lymph node revealing solution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS;

ANTIGENS, CD45; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; FIXATIVES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; TISSUE FIXATION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030862333     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199711000-00016     Document Type: Article

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