Axillary lymph node dissection versus the sentinel lymph node technique in breast cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-8

  Seigler, Hilliard F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 3042512035     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000132567.28613.a7     Document Type: Editorial

References (3)

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3. Starritt, EC, McKinnon J G, Lo SK, et al. Lymphedema following complete axillary node dissection for melanoma: assessment using a new, objective definition. Ann Surg. In press.