Interpectoral Nodes as the Initial Site of Recurrence in Breast Cancer

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-178

  Komenaka, Ian K ^a,b   Bauer, Valerie P ^a   Schnabel, Freya R ^a   Joseph, Kathie Ann ^a   Horowitz, Elizabeth ^a   Ditkoff, Beth Ann ^a   El Tamer, Mahmoud B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Milstein Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERPECTORAL LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0842288287     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.2.175     Document Type: Review

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