Occult breast carcinoma presenting with axillary lymph node metastases: Follow-up of eleven patients

Breast Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 330-334

  Matsuoka, Kinya ^a   Ohsumi, Shozo ^b   Takashima, Shigemitsu ^b   Saeki, Toshiaki ^b   Aogi, Kenjiro ^b   Mandai, Koichi ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c National Hiroshima Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node metastases; Gross cystic disease fluid protein 15; Occult breast carcinoma; Stage 11 breast carcinoma

Indexed keywords

APOD PROTEIN, HUMAN; APOLIPOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN D; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; PIP PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ADULT; APOLIPOPROTEINS; APOLIPOPROTEINS D; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 1542546233     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967653     Document Type: Article

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