Areolar-cutaneous junction injection boosts activity in sentinel node by more than 50 times compared to perilesional injection: Implications for morbidity reduction

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-80

  Kim, Sunhee ^a   Kim, Chun K ^a   Krynyckyi, Borys R ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RADIOACTIVITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 14944355714     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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