The likelihood of additional nodal disease following a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer patients: validation of a nomogram

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 484-487

  Cripe, Mark H ^a   Beran, LeAnn C ^a   Liang, Wen C ^a   Sickle Santanello, Brenda J ^a  

^a GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary metastases; Breast cancer; Nomogram; Prediction; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOMOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 33748417125     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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