Sentinel lymph node examination: Balancing between high workload and low metastasis detection rate

European Surgery - Acta Chirurgica Austriaca

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 277-279

  Rudas, Margaretha ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Konstantiniuk, P ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Horvat, R ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Niedermoser, P ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Bogner, S ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Hoffman, B ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Pichler Gebhard, Barbara ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Offner, F ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Second Department of Surgery   (Austria)

^c Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Wien Betriebsgesellschaft   (Austria)

^d KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^e Landeskrankenhaus Vocklabruck ^*  (Austria)

^f WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^g Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conversion rate; Frozen section; Sentinel lymph node; Workload

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0036965757     PISSN: 16821769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1563-2563.2002.02067.x     Document Type: Article

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