Is the reexcision rate higher if breast conservation surgery is performed by surgical trainees?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-48

  Moorthy, Krishna ^a   Asopa, Vipin ^a   Wiggins, Elizabeth ^a   Callam, Michael ^a  

^a BEDFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Outcome and trainees; Recurrence and breast cancer; Reexcision and breast cancer; Trainees and surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESIDENT; RISK FACTOR; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SURGERY;

EID: 3042527845     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2003.11.041     Document Type: Article

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