Clinical implications of contralateral axillary sentinel lymph nodes

Breast

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 266-268

  Carmon, Moshe ^a   Mintz, Alexander ^a   Hain, Daniel ^a   Olsha, Oded ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Lymphatic metastasis; Neoplasm staging; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

EID: 33646380065     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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