Internal mammary sentinel nodes: Ignore, irradiate or operate?

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 789-794

  Coombs, Nathan J ^a   Boyages, John ^b   French, James R ^b   Ung, Owen A ^b  

^a GREAT WESTERN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Internal mammary nodes; Lymph node excision; Lymphography; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY CHAIN LYMPH NODE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMONY; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 61349094654     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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