Attaining Negative Margins in Breast-Conservation Operations: Is There a Consensus among Breast Surgeons?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 608-613

  Blair, Sarah L ^a   Thompson, Kari ^b   Rococco, Joseph ^c   Malcarne, Vanessa ^d   Beitsch, Peter D ^e   Ollila, David W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Dallas Surgical Group   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; EXCISION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350130594     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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