Abandoning sentinel lymph node biopsy in early breast cancer? A new trial in progress at the European Institute of Oncology of Milan (SOUND: Sentinel node vs Observation after axillary UltraSouND)

Breast

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 678-681

  Gentilini, Oreste ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axillary surgery; Breast cancer treatment; Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB); Ultra sound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS;

EID: 84865977722     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: 15323080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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