Is clinical assessment of the axilla a reliable indicator for lymph node metastases in breast cancer?

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 943-944

  Haron, Nur Hashim ^a   Taib, Nur Aishah ^a   Yip, Cheng Har ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SHORT SURVEY;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 54349085123     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04709.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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