Occult metastases in the sentinel lymph nodes of patients with early stage breast carcinoma: A preliminary study

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 990-996

  Dowlatshahi, Kambiz ^a   Fan, Ming ^a   Bloom, Kenneth J ^a   Spitz, Daniel J ^a   Patel, Samir ^a   Snider Jr , Howard C ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Baptist Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Cytokeratin stain; Occult metastases; Sentinel lymph nodes; Serial sections

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AXILLA; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 0033567967     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990915)86:6<990::AID-CNCR14>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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