Role of ultrasound-guided fine needle cytology of axillary lymph nodes in breast carcinoma staging;Ruolo della citologia con ago sottile ecoguidata dei linfonodi ascellari nella stadiazione del carcinoma mammario

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-355

  Brancato, Beniamino ^a   Zappa, Marco ^a   Bricolo, Daniela ^b   Catarzi, Sandra ^a   Risso, Gabriella ^a   Bonardi, Rita ^a   Cariaggi, Paola ^a   Bianchin, Annalisa ^b   Bricolo, Paola ^c   Rosselli Del Turco, Marco ^a   Cataliotti, Luigi ^d   Bianchi, Simonetta ^e   Ciatto, Stefano ^a  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^b BORGO TRENTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Centro di Prevenzione Senologica   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspiration citology; Breast carcinoma; Staging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 8444235047     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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