The "Sentinel Chain": A new concept for prediction of axillary node status in breast cancer patients

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-328

  Carmon, Moshe ^a   Olsha, Oded ^a   Schecter, William P ^b   Raveh, David ^a   Reinus, Constantin ^a   Hershko, Dan D ^c   Beller, Uziel ^a   Golomb, Eliahu ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lymph node metastases; Sentinel chain; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

DISULFINE BLUE; SULFUR; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CANCER SIZE; DEVICE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISRAEL; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PALPATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROSANILINE DYES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 33745392416     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-9127-2     Document Type: Article

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