Axillary node staging by ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration cytology in patients with breast cancer

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 680-683

  Baruah, B P ^a   Goyal, A ^a   Young, P ^b   Douglas Jones, A G ^a   Mansel, R E ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77951771731     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6964     Document Type: Article

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