Primary angiosarcoma of the breast: Do enlarged axillary nodes matter?

Breast Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 371-374

  Losanoff, Julian E ^a   Jaber, Saed ^b   Esuba, Magda ^b   Perry, Michael ^c   Sauter, Edward R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Axillary; Breast; Diagnosis; Lymph nodes; Primary; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST SARCOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL;

EID: 33745592484     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2006.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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