Scientific Presentation Award: The combination of axillary ultrasound and ultrasound-guided biopsy is an accurate predictor of axillary stage in clinically node-negative breast cancer patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 477-482

  Holwitt, Dana M ^a   Swatske, Mary Ellen ^a   Gillanders, William E ^a   Monsees, Barbara S ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Aft, Rebecca L ^a,b   Eberlein, Timothy J ^a   Margenthaler, Julie A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary ultrasound; Breast cancer; Fine needle aspiration biopsy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 52049095948     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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