Sentinel lymph node biopsy and non-sentinel node involvement in special type breast carcinomas with a good prognosis

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1407-1414

  Cserni, Gábor ^a   Bianchi, Simonetta ^b   Vezzosi, Vania ^b   Arisio, Riccardo ^c   Bori, Rita ^a   Peterse, Johannes L ^d   Sapino, Anna ^e   Drijkoningen, Maria ^f   Kulka, Janina ^g   Eusebi, Vincenzo ^h   Foschini, Maria Pia ^h   Bellocq, Jean Pierre ⁱ   Marin, Cristi ⁱ   Thorstenson, Sten ^j   Amendoeira, Isabel ^k   Reiner Concin, Angelika ^l   Decker, Thomas ^m  

^a BÁCS KISKUN COUNTY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Sant'Anna   (Italy)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

ⁱ HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^j KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^l RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^m UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Breast cancer; Isolated tumour cells; Micrometastasis; Mucinous carcinoma; Non sentinel lymph node; Papillary carcinoma; Sentinel lymph node; Tubular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 34249981785     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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