Does the benefit of sentinel node frozen section vary between patients with invasive duct, invasive lobular, and favorable histologic subtypes of breast cancer?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-149

  Chan, Sharon Wing Wai ^a   LaVigne, Katherine A ^b   Port, Elisa R ^b   Fey, Jane V ^b   Brogi, Edi ^b   Borgen, Patrick I ^b   Cody III, Hiram S ^b  

^a UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 37549020323     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181581f41     Document Type: Article

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