Significance of axillary lymph node extranodal soft tissue extension and indications for postmastectomy irradiation

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1258-1262

  Mignano, John E ^a   Zahurak, Marianna L ^a   Chakravarthy, Anuradha ^a   Piantadosi, Steven ^a   Dooley, William C ^a   Gage, Irene ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Sibley Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node positive breast carcinoma; Axillary recurrence; Extranodal soft tissue extension; Mastectomy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033214119     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19991001)86:7<1258::AID-CNCR22>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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