Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy as a staging procedure in breast cancer: update of a randomised controlled study

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 983-990

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Paganelli, Giovanni ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a,b   Luini, Alberto ^a,b   Zurrida, Stefano ^a,b   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Intra, Mattia ^a   Veronesi, Paolo ^a,b   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Gatti, Giovanna ^a   Mazzarol, Giovanni ^a   De Cicco, Concetta ^a   Manfredi, Gianfranco ^a   Fernández, Julia Rodríguez ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M COLLOID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STEM CELL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33751335657     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70947-0     Document Type: Article

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