Sentinel lymph nodes: What have we learned and where will it lead us?

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2945-2947

  Covens, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFINE BLUE; RADIOISOTOPE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; STAINING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038348645     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11438     Document Type: Review

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