Is the berg axillary lymph node categorization useful in the 3D environment?

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-77

  Saito, Anneyuko I ^a   Vargas, Carlos ^a   Benda, Rashmi ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Mendenhall, Nancy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph nodes; Breast cancer; Computed tomography; Radiation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; RADIOLOGIST; SURGEON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846794540     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.coc.0000242467.52844.ac     Document Type: Article

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