Axillary staging in the neoadjuvant setting

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2401-2410

  Chung, Alice ^a   Giuliano, Armando ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUOROURACIL; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77956344983     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1001-8     Document Type: Review

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