Role of resection margins in patients treated with breast conservation surgery

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1923-1931

  Zavagno, Giorgio ^a   Goldin, Elena ^a   Mencarelli, Roberto ^a   Capitanio, Giovanni ^b   Del Bianco, Paola ^c   Marconato, Renato ^b   Mocellin, Simone ^a   Marconato, Giorgia ^a   Belardinelli, Valentina ^a   Marcon, Francesca ^a   Nitti, Donato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Hospital of Venice   (Italy)

^c VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast conservation surgery; Margins; Reexcision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVATION SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; REOPERATION;

EID: 42449120528     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23383     Document Type: Article

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