Use of axillary ultrasonography in breast cancer: A useful tool to reduce sentinel node procedures

Annali Italiani di Chirurgia

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 315-318

  Sianesi, Mario ^a   Ceci, Guido ^b   Ghirarduzzi, Andrea ^a   Del Rio, Paolo ^a   Guazzi, Anna ^b   Pisanelli, Beatrice ^b   Martella, Eugenia ^b   Ardizzoni, Andrea ^b   Di Blasio, Beatrice ^b   Arcuri, Maria Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Axillary ecography; Breast cancer; Fine needle aspiration; Sentinel lymphnode

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 74049164725     PISSN: 2239253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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