A randomized comparison of sentinel-node biopsy with routine axillary dissection in breast cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 546-553

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a,b   Luini, Alberto ^a   Zurrida, Stefano ^a   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Intra, Mattia ^a   Veronesi, Paolo ^a   Robertson, Chris ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Renne, Giuseppe ^a   De Cicco, Concetta ^a   De Lucia, Francesca ^a   Gennari, Roberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041708045     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa012782     Document Type: Article

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