Impact of preoperative ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration of axillary lymph nodes on surgical management of primary breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 738-744

  Park, So Hee ^a   Kim, Min Jung ^a   Park, Byoung Woo ^b   Moon, Hee Jung ^a   Kwak, Jin Young ^a   Kim, Eun Kyung ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79955738994     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1347-y     Document Type: Article

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