Predictors of axillary lymph node metastases in breast cancer: Is there a role for minimal axillary surgery?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-57

  Yip, C H ^a   Taib, N A ^a   Tan, G H ^a   Ng, K L ^a   Yoong, B K ^a   Choo, W Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CHINESE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FROZEN SHOULDER; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MASTECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SHOULDER PAIN; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 58149308491     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9782-7     Document Type: Article

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