Impact and outcomes of routine microstaging of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer: Significance of the pN0(i+) and pN1mi categories

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-120

  Pugliese, Matthew S ^a   Beatty, J David ^a   Tickman, Ronald J ^b   Allison, Kimberly H ^c   Atwood, Mary K ^a   Szymonifka, Jackie ^d   Arthurs, Zachary M ^e   Huynh, Paul P ^a   Dawson, John H ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CellNetix Pathology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATINS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58549097254     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0121-x     Document Type: Article

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