History of surgery for breast cancer: Radical to the sublime

Current Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 329-337

  Cotlar, Alvin M ^a   Dubose, Joseph J ^a   Rose, D Michael ^a  

^a USAF Medical Center Keesler   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Mastectomy; Segmentectomy; Sentinel node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL STUDY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0037407593     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7944(02)00777-8     Document Type: Article

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