Occult breast cancer presenting axillary nodal metastasis: A case report

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 185-187

  Abe, Hajime ^a   Naitoh, Hiroyuki ^a   Ueda, Tomoko ^a   Shiomi, Hisanori ^a   Tani, Tohru ^a   Kodama, Masashi ^a   Okabe, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axillary nodal metastasis; Breast cancer; Occult cancer

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY;

EID: 0034034885     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyd047     Document Type: Article

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