Patients with breast cancer and negative sentinel lymph node biopsy without additional axillary lymph node dissection: A follow-up study of up to 5 years

Oncology

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 27-32

  Domènech, Anna ^a   Benitez, Ana ^a   Bajén, María Teresa ^a   Pla, María Jesús ^a   Gil, Miguel ^a   Martín Comín, Josep ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node dissection; Axillary recurrence; Breast cancer; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 37049024736     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111085     Document Type: Article

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