Tumor cells in lymph vessels and lymph nodes closely associated with nodal metastasis by invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast

Cancer Science

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 508-514

  Hasebe, Takahiro ^a   Sasaki, Satoshi ^a   Imoto, Shigeru ^b   Ochiai, Atsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DUCT; BREAST FIBROSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR EMBOLISM; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0038640920     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01474.x     Document Type: Article

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