Assessment of Axillary lymph node involvement in small breast cancer: Analysis of 893 cases

Clinical Breast Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-65

  Cutuli, Bruno ^a   Velten, Michel ^b   Martin, Caroline ^b  

^a Polyclinique de Courlancy   (France)

^b CENTRE PAUL STRAUSS   (France)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast carcinoma; Lymph node metastasis; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PALPATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0035003181     PISSN: 15268209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CBC.2001.n.012     Document Type: Article

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