Immediate preoperative injection of 99m-Tc sulfur colloid is effective in the detection of breast sentinel lymph nodes

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1083-1087

  Vargas, Hernan I ^a,b   Vargas, Maria P ^a   Gonzalez, Katherine D ^a   Burla, Melissa ^a   Venegas, Rose ^a   Diggles, Linda ^a   Mishkin, Fred ^a   Klein, Stanley R ^a   Khalkhali, Iraj ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Surgical Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSULFAN BLUE; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FUCHSINE; ISO SULFAN BLUE; ISO-SULFAN BLUE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; INJECTION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROSANILINE DYES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036982821     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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