Sentinel lymph node histopathology in breast cancer: Minimal disease versus artifact

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1978-1979

  Carter, Beverley A ^a   Page, David L ^b  

^a St Clare's Mercy Hospital   (Canada)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 33646466025     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.05.6036     Document Type: Editorial

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