Histological detection of minimal metastatic involvement in axillary sentinel nodes: A rational basis for a sensitive methodology usable in daily practice

Modern Pathology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 641-646

  Fréneaux, Paul ^a   Nos, Claude ^a   Vincent Salomon, Anne ^a   Genin, Pascal ^a   Sigal Zafrani, Brigitte ^a   Al Ghuzlan, Abir ^a   Birolini, Marie José ^a   Clough, Krishna ^a   Sastre Garau, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Blue dye; Breast carcinoma; Immunohistochemistry; Micrometastases; Occult metastases; Sentinel lymph nodes; Serial sections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0036088844     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3880580     Document Type: Article

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