A treatment scale for axillary management in breast cancer

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 377-383

  Kaufman, Cary S ^a,b   Jacobson Kaufman, Leslie ^a   Thorndike Christ, Tracy ^c   Kaufman, Lauren ^a   Tabár, László ^d  

^a Bellingham Breast Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast cancer treatment; Sentinel nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 0035172576     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00741-3     Document Type: Article

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