Touch prep cytology as a preferred approach for evaluating sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer [2]

Breast Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-107

  Lisa Attebery, M ^a   Sieling, Beth A ^a   Ciocca, Robin ^a   Grujic, Edina ^a   Smink, Robert ^a   Frazier, Thomas G ^a  

^a Founders' Bank Building   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FROZEN SECTION; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM EXAMINATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGIST; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STAINING; SURGEON; TOUCH PREP CYTOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PALPATION; PENNSYLVANIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 33845967442     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2006.00379.x     Document Type: Letter

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