Sentinel lymph node biopsy is feasible even after total mastectomy

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-179

  Intra, Mattia ^a,b   Veronesi, Paolo ^a   Gentilini, Oreste D ^a   Trifirò, Giuseppe ^a   Berrettini, Anastasio ^a   Cecilio, Rafaela ^a   Colleoni, Marco ^a   Rietjens, Mario ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Pacanelli, Giovanni ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy; Breast cancer; Previous total mastectomy; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

EID: 33846922565     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20670     Document Type: Article

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