Another role for ultrasonography in the management of breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-2

  Harlow, Seth P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TUMOR INVASION;

AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 30944467282     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2006.09.813     Document Type: Editorial

References (3)

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