Are microinvasion and micrometastasis in breast cancer mountains or molehills?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 305-308

  Hoda, Syed A ^a,b   Chiu, April ^a   Prasad, Manju L ^a   Giri, Dilip ^a   Hoda, Rana S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Starr 1028 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; TUMOR VOLUME;

AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 0033647142     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00464-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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