The microanatomic location of metastatic breast cancer in sentinel lymph nodes predicts nonsentinel lymph node involvement

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1309-1315

  Van Deurzen, Carolien H M ^a   Seldenrijk, Cees A ^a   Koelemij, Ron ^a   Van Hillegersberg, Richard ^b   Hobbelink, Monique G G ^b   Van Diest, Paul J ^b  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node metastases; Breast cancer; Morphometry; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 41549088277     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-007-9803-z     Document Type: Article

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