A new approach in breast cancer with non-inflammatory skin involvement

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 576-583

  Güth, Uwe ^a   Wight, Edward ^a   Schötzau, Andreas ^b   Langer, Igor ^c   Dieterich, Holger ^d   Rochlitz, Christoph ^e   Herberich, Linda ^a   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a   Singer, Gad ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b JPS Institute for Biomathematics   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Surgery ^*  (Switzerland)

^d Women's Hospital and Breast Center Rheinfelden   (Germany)

^e UHB   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33746756575     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860600602953     Document Type: Article

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