An axillary recurrence of breast cancer following a negative sentinel lymph node biopsy

Breast Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 234-236

  Yen, Tina W F ^a   Mann, Gary N ^a,b   Lawton, Thomas J ^a   Livingston, Robert B ^a   Anderson, Benjamin O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Section of Surgical Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary recurrence; Breast cancer; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

COLLOID TC 99M; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EOSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; HEMATOXYLIN; ISOSULFAN BLUE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LETROZOLE; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU; BREAST LOBULAR CARCINOMA IN SITU; BREAST METASTASIS; CALCIFICATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; ONCOGENE NEU; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STAINING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0038102420     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.2003.09321.x     Document Type: Article

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