Factors influencing accuracy of axillary sentinel lymph node frozen section for breast cancer

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 199, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 629-635

  Jensen, Amariek J ^a,b   Naik, Arpana M ^a   Pommier, Rodney F ^a   Vetto, John T ^a   Troxell, Megan L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node dissection; Breast cancer; Frozen section; Micrometastasis; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ISOSULFAN BLUE; METHYLENE BLUE; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77951893023     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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