Minimal metastatic disease in sentinel lymph nodes in breast carcinoma: Some modest proposals to refine criteria for "isolated tumor cells"

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 185-189

  Amin, Bijal D ^a   Hoda, Syed A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast carcinoma; Carcinoma; Cytokeratin; Immunohistochemistry; Isolated tumor cells; Micrometastasis; Sentinel lymph node; Submicrometastasis; Tumor stage

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; KERATIN;

BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CELL ISOLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR CELL; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAINING;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); FEMALE; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; KERATINS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 33748204185     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00125480-200607000-00005     Document Type: Review

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