Role of axillary lymph node ultrasound and large core biopsy in the preoperative assessment of patients selected for sentinel node biopsy;Ruolo dell'ecografia e della microbiopsia istologica nella valutazione del cavo ascellare in pazienti candidate a biopsia del linfonodo sentinella

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 330-344

  Nori, Jacopo ^a   Bazzocchi, Massimo ^b   Boeri, Cecilia ^a   Vanzi, Ermanno ^a   Nori Bufalini, Filippo ^a   Mangialavori, Giuseppe ^d   Distante, Vito ^c   Masi, Andrea ^a   Simoncini, Roberta ^c   Londero, Viviana ^b  

^a Diagnostica Senologica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d Ospedale di Merano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axillary lymphnodes; Breast cancer; Core biopsy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; NEEDLE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 22244440828     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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