Eighteen months clinical experience with the GeneSearch breast lymph node assay

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 203-209

  Veys, Isabelle ^a   Durbecq, Virginie ^a   Majjaj, Samira ^a   Schobbens, Jean Christophe ^a   Noterman, Danielle ^a   Sirtaine, Nicolas ^a   Martinez, Maria Dolores Martin ^a   Hertens, Dina ^a   Feoli, Francesco ^a   Bourgeois, Pierre ^a   Nogaret, Jean Marie ^a   Larsimont, Denis ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Axillary sentinel lymph nodes; Breast cancer; RT PCR assay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENESEARCH BREAST LYMPH NODE ASSAY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

EID: 67650714741     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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