Sentinel lymph node detection using computed tomography lymphography is accurate after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1475-1480

  Ue, Hironobu ^a   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Kariya, Shinji ^a   Nakatani, Kimiko ^a   Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro ^a   Miyatake, Kana ^a   Maeda, Hironori ^a   Tanaka, Yosuke ^a   Sasaguri, Shiro ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computed tomography lymphography; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548031896     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.17.6.1475     Document Type: Article

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