Anatomic location of breast cancer micrometastasis in sentinel lymph node predicts axillary status [1]

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 706-707

  Tommaso, Luca Di ^a   Arizzi, Carmelo ^a   Rahal, Daoud ^a   Destro, Annarita ^a   Roncalli, Massimo ^a   Alloisio, Marco ^b   Orefice, Sergio ^b   Rubino, Arianna ^b   Morenghi, Emanuela ^b   Masci, Giovanna ^b   Santoro, Armando ^b   Prato, Ivan Del ^c   Sacco, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MELANOMA; MICROMETASTASIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; METASTASIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 33746223211     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000216764.16615.8c     Document Type: Letter

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