Achieving the lowest false-negative rate in peritumoral breast lymphatic mapping: The oncologic search for the Holy Grail

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 486-487

  Kern, Kenneth A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; COLORING AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; ONCOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STAINING; SURGEON; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 0042285902     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2003.04.006     Document Type: Editorial

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