Cost-effectiveness analysis of routine frozen-section analysis of breast margins compared with reoperation for positive margins

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3204-3209

  Osborn, John B ^a   Keeney, Gary L ^a   Jakub, James W ^a   Degnim, Amy C ^a   Boughey, Judy C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FROZEN SECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SECOND-LOOK SURGERY;

EID: 83055172925     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-1956-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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