Pathological processing techniques and final diagnosis of breast cancer sentinel lymph nodes

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2892-2898

  Fritzsche, Florian Rudolf ^a   Reineke, Tanja ^a   Morawietz, Lars ^b   Kristiansen, Glen ^a   Dietel, Manfred ^b   Fink, Daniel ^c   Rageth, Christoph ^d   Honegger, Christoph ^e   Caduff, Rosmarie ^a   Moch, Holger ^a   Varga, Zsuzsanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^d Breast Cancer Center Seefeld   (Switzerland)

^e Office of Survey   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL ISOLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; STEREOMICROSCOPY; TUMOR CELL;

AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 78049469540     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1097-x     Document Type: Article

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