Pathological examination of sentinel lymph nodes: Work-up - interpretation - clinical implications

Breast Care

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 102-108

  Lebeau, Annette ^a,b   Cserni, Gabor ^a   Dietel, Manfred ^a   Lax, Sigurd ^a   Nährig, Jörg ^a   Höfler, Heinz ^a   Pinder, Sarah ^a   Viale, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf ^*

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROMETASTASIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 34247468070     PISSN: 16613791     EISSN: 16613805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101043     Document Type: Note

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