The role of frozen section analysis of margins during breast conservation surgery

Cancer Journal from Scientific American

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 273-277

  Weber, Sharon ^a   Storm, F Kristian ^a   Stitt, Judith ^a   Mahvi, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Breast conservation surgery; Frozen section analysis; Local recurrence; Margin assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030863990     PISSN: 10814442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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