Role of axillary ultrasound in the preoperative diagnosis of lymph node metastases in patients affected by breast carcinoma;Ruolo dell'ecografia del cavo ascellare nella diagnosi pre-operatoria di metastasi linfonodali in pazienti affette da carcinoma mammario

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-237

  Luparia, A ^a   Campanino, P ^a   Cotti, R ^a   Lucarelli, D ^a   Durando, M ^a   Mariscotti, G ^a   Gandini, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axillary space; Breast carcinoma; Lymph nodes; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77951298170     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-009-0465-8     Document Type: Article

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