Preoperative axillary staging in breast cancer-saving time and resources

Breast Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 369-371

  Tahir, Mohammad ^a   Osman, Khalid A ^a   Shabbir, J ^a   Rogers, Colin ^a   Suarez, Richard ^a   Reynolds, Tim ^a   Bucknall, Tim ^a  

^a QUEEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axillary staging; Breast cancer; Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 54049149849     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2008.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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