Alternative lymphatic pathway after previous axillary node dissection in recurrent/primary breast cancer

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 698-702

  Sood, Aswani ^a   Youssef, Irini M ^b   Heiba, Sherif I ^b   El Zeftawy, Hossam ^b   Axelrod, Deborah ^b   Seigel, Beth ^b   Mills, Christopher ^b   Abdel Dayem, Hussein M ^b,c  

^a INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphoscintigraphy; Recurrent breast cancer; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MELANOMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RECURRENT CANCER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 6944241394     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200411000-00005     Document Type: Article

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