Use of ultrasound-guided axillary node core biopsy in staging of early breast cancer

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 561-569

  Britton, Peter D ^a   Goud, A ^a   Godward, S ^b   Barter, S ^a   Freeman, A ^a   Gaskarth, M ^a   Rajan, P ^a   Sinnatamby, R ^a   Slattery, J ^a   Provenzano, E ^a   O'Donovan, M ^a   Pinder, S ^c   Benson, J R ^d   Forouhi, P ^d   Wishart, G C ^d  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Cambridge Archaeological Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axillary staging; Breast cancer; Histology; Percutaneous biopsy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND GUIDED LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 59949086944     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1177-5     Document Type: Article

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