Breast cancer patients with extra-axillary sentinel nodes only may be spared axillary lymph node dissection

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3239-3243

  Van Der Ploeg, Iris M C ^a   Tanis, Pieter J ^b   Valdés Olmos, Renato A ^a   Kroon, Bin B R ^a   Rutgers, Emiel J T ^a   Nieweg, Omgo E ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; TRACER;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 55149087246     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0120-y     Document Type: Article

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