Positive margins of breast biopsy: Is reexcision always necessary?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-171

  Papa, Moshe Z ^a   Zippel, Douglas ^a   Koller, Moshe ^a   Klein, Ehud ^a   Chetrit, Angela ^a   Ari, Gur Ben ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast biopsy; Breast neoplasms; Reexcision; Specimen margins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0033015613     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199903)70:3<167::AID-JSO4>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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