Axillary metastasis as the first manifestation of occult breast cancer in a man: A case report

Anticancer Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6 B, 2002, Pages 3611-3613

  Namba, Noriko ^a   Hiraki, Akio ^a,b   Tabata, Masahiro ^a   Kiura, Katsuyuki ^a   Ueoka, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshino, Tadashi ^a   Tanimoto, Mitsune ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axillary metastasis; Cancer; Immunohistochemical staining; Male breast; Occult cancer; Unknown primary site tumor

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY;

EID: 0036875898     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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