Touch preparation or frozen section for intraoperative detection of sentinel lymph node metastases from breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1166-1170

  Menes, Tehillah S ^a   Tartter, Paul Ian ^a,b   Mizrachi, Howard ^a   Smith, Sharon Rosenbaum ^a   Estabrook, Alison ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The Comprehensive Breast Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Frozen section; Sentinel lymph node; Touch preparation cytology

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CYTOLOGY; DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TOUCH; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 1542438815     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2003.04.023     Document Type: Article

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