Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer: Early results in 953 patients with negative sentinel node biopsy and no axillary dissection

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-237

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Mariani, Luigi ^a   Gatti, Giovanna ^a   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^b   Zurrida, Stefano ^a   Veronesi, Paolo ^a   Intra, Mattia ^a   Gennari, Roberto ^a   Rita Vento, Anna ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Tullii, Marco ^a   Bassani, Guillermo ^a   Rotmensz, Nicole ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Follow up; Negative sentinel node; Overt axillary metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 19944433740     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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