Will subareolar injection be a standard technique for sentinel lymph node biopsy?

Breast Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 319-322

  Yoshida, Kazuya ^a   Yamamoto, Naohito ^a   Imanaka, Nobuhiro ^a   Togawa, Takashi ^a   Miyauchi, Mitsuru ^b   Miyazaki, Masaru ^c  

^a CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b Breast Service Co and Ltd ^*  (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Sentinel node biopsy; Subareolar injection; Subdermal injection

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; INDIGO CARMINE; PHYTIC ACID; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM PHYTATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLE; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIGOTINDISULFONATE SODIUM; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYTIC ACID; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0036357702     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967611     Document Type: Review

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