Is sentinel node staging for breast cancer standard care? the role of imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1089-1092

  Alazraki, N ^a   Grant, S ^a   Styblo, T ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TRACER;

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; RADIATION HAZARD;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 0033398344     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199912000-00001     Document Type: Article

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