Axillary lymph nodes suspicious for breast cancer metastasis: Sampling with US-guided 14-gauge core-needle biopsy - Clinical experience in 100 patients

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-49

  Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Schmidt, Robert A ^a   Kulkarni, Kimi ^a   Sennett, Charlene A ^a   Mueller, Jeffrey S ^a   Newstead, Gillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 58149355281     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2493071483     Document Type: Article

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