Predictors of axillary lymph node metastases in patients with T1 breast carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1918-1922

  Barth, Andreas ^a   Craig, Pamela H ^b   Silverstein, Melvin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b The Breast Center Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

axillary lymph node dissection; axillary metastases; breast carcinoma; lymphadenectomy; multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLOIDIES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; S PHASE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031008077     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970515)79:10<1918::AID-CNCR12>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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