Breast cancer patients treated without axillary surgery: Clinical implications and biologic analysis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Greco, Marco ^a,e   Agresti, Roberto ^a   Cascinelli, Natale ^e   Casalini, Patrizia ^b   Giovanazzi, Riccardo ^a   Maucione, Antonio ^d   Tomasic, Gorana ^c   Ferraris, Cristina ^a   Ammatuna, Mario ^d   Pilotti, Silvana ^c   Menard, Sylvie ^b  

^a General Surgery Unit   (Italy)

^b Molecular Targeting Unit   (Italy)

^c Pathology Unit   (Italy)

^d Anesthesiology   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMININ RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOGENE C ERB; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 17944394776     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200007000-00001     Document Type: Article

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