Preservation of pectoralis minor in axillary clearance for breast cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1547-1548

  Markandoo, P ^a   Smith, P ^a   Chaudary, M A ^a   Fentiman, I S ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031787365     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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