Morphometry of isolated tumor cells in breast cancer sentinel lymph nodes: Metastases or displacement?

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-110

  Van Deurzen, Carolien H M ^a   Bult, Peter ^b   De Boer, Maaike ^c,d   Koelemij, Ron ^e   Van Hillegersberg, Richard ^a   Tjan Heijnen, Vivianne C G ^c   Hobbelink, Monique G G ^a   De Bruin, Peter C ^e   Van Diest, Paul J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Integraal Kankercentrum Oost   (Netherlands)

^e ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Isolated tumor cells; Morphometry; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR SIZE; PRIMARY TUMOR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CELL; BREAST TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 59149094655     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31817eec40     Document Type: Article

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