Beyond the false negative rate: Development of quality indicators for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 579-591

  Quan, May Lynn ^a   Wells, Bryan J ^a   McCready, David ^b   Wright, Frances C ^a   Fraser, Novlette ^a   Gagliardi, Anna R ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; DELPHI STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 77149142610     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0658-3     Document Type: Article

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