Lower and central tumor location correlates with lymphoscintigraphy drainage to the internal mammary lymph nodes in breast carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1323-1329

  Shahar, Karen H ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Delpassand, Ebrahim ^a   Sahin, Aysegul A ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Ames, Fredrick C ^a   Kuerer, Henry M ^a   Feig, Barry W ^a   Meric Bernstam, Funda ^a   Babiera, Gildy V ^a   Singletary, S Eva ^a   Akins, Jeri S ^a   Mirza, Nadeem Q ^a   Hunt, Kelly K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Internal mammary nodes; Lymphoscintigraphy; Sentinel lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY LYMPH NODE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 20144377358     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20914     Document Type: Review

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