Internal mammary silicone lymphadenopathy mimicking recurrent breast cancer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 225-229

  Kao, Chia Chi ^a   Rand, Richard P ^a   Holt, Charlene A ^a   Pierce, Robert H ^a   Timmons, James H ^a   Wood, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SILICONE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SILICONES;

EID: 0343488748     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199701000-00034     Document Type: Article

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