Axillary lymph nodes: US guided fine-needle aspiration for initial staging of breast cancer - Correlation with primary tumor size

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-89

  Koelliker, Susan L ^a   Chung, Maureen A ^b   Mainiero, Martha B ^a   Steinhoff, Margaret M ^a   Cady, Blake ^b  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37349007828     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2463061463     Document Type: Article

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