Separate cavity margin sampling at the time of initial breast lumpectomy significantly reduces the need for reexcisions

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1625-1632

  Cao, Dengfeng ^a   Lin, Clarence ^a   Woo, Seung Hyun ^a   Vang, Russell ^a   Tsangaris, Theodore N ^a   Argani, Pedram ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Carcinoma; Cavity margin; Lumpectomy; Reexcision

Indexed keywords

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ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREDICTION; REOPERATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REOPERATION; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 33644789703     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000180448.08203.70     Document Type: Article

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