Sentinel lymph node biopsy in management of early breast cancer: Is it rational to omit blue dye injection?

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-

  Kaviani, Ahmad ^a   Noveiry, Behnoud Baradaran ^a   Noaparast, Morteza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSULFAN BLUE; METHYLENE BLUE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST PROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER INVASION; EARLY CANCER; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NECROSIS;

ANAPHYLAXIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLLOIDS; COLORING AGENTS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLENE BLUE; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 84862854548     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.01.005     Document Type: Letter

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