Practice patterns of lymph-node mapping and sentinel-node biopsy for breast cancer in British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 273-278

  Chua, Boon ^a   Olivotto, Ivo A ^b,d   Donald, James C ^c   Hayashi, Allen H ^c   Davis, Noelle ^c   Rusnak, Conrad H ^c  

^a Sydney Radiother and Oncol Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d BC Cancer Agy Vancouver Isl C C   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOLOGIST; PATIENT MONITORING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0041466226     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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