Sentinel node localization in patients with breast cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 991-993

  Flett, M M ^a   Going, J J ^a   Stanton, P D ^a   Cooke, T G ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031825125     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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