When sentinel lymph node is intramammary

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1304-1308

  Intra, Mattia ^a   Garcia Etienne, Carlos A ^a   Renne, Giuseppe ^a   Trifirò, Giuseppe ^a   Rotmensz, Nicole ^a   Gentilini, Oreste D ^a   Galimberti, Viviana ^a   Sagona, Andrea ^a   Mattar, Denise ^a   Sangalli, Claudia ^a   Gatti, Giovanna ^a   Luini, Alberto ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Extra axillary nodes; Extra axillary sentinel node biopsy; Intramammary lymph nodes; Intramammary sentinel lymph node biopsy; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

NANOCOLL TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MICROMETASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 41549091508     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-007-9720-1     Document Type: Article

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