Accurate axillary lymph node dissection is feasible after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-50

  Straver, Marieke E ^a   Rutgers, Emiel J T ^a   Oldenburg, Hester S A ^a   Wesseling, Jelle ^a   Linn, Sabine C ^a   Russell, Nicola S ^a   Vrancken Peeters, Marie Jeanne T F D ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph nodes; Breast cancer; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; PACLITAXEL; TRASTUZUMAB;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHRACYCLINES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRIDGED COMPOUNDS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAXOIDS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649605067     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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