Subareolar Subcutaneous Injection of Blue Dye versus Peritumoral Injection of Technetium-labeled Human Albumin to Identify Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer Patients

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1291-1294

  Reitsamer, Roland ^a   Peintinger, Florentia ^b   Rettenbacher, Lukas ^a   Prokop, Eva ^a   Sedlmayer, Felix ^a  

^a St Johanns Spital   (Austria)

^b General Hospital of Leoben   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M; DYE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; RADIOACTIVITY; RELIABILITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 0348011675     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7001-0     Document Type: Article

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