Importance of intramammary node resection in breast cancer staging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 572-573

  De Ferrater, Maria Boronat ^a   Vidal Sicart, Sergi ^a   Zanón, Gabriel ^a   Martínez Román, Sergio ^a   Sanjuán, Alex ^a   Fernández, Pedro Luis ^a   Velasco, Martín ^a   Pons, Francesca ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Intramammary node; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NANOCOLL TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 34250891392     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3180646a31     Document Type: Article

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