False Negative Results of Preoperative Axillary Ultrasound in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer: Correlations with Clinicopathologic Findings

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1881-1886

  Choi, Ji Soo ^a,b   Kim, Min Jung ^a   Moon, Hee Jung ^a   Kim, Eun Kyung ^a   Yoon, Jung Hyun ^c  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^c CHA University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Axilla; False negative; Lymph node; Preoperative; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AXILLA; AXILLARY LYMPH NODES; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST CANCER; EXACT TESTS; FALSE NEGATIVES; HIGHER T; LYMPH NODE; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODES;

BODY FLUIDS; DISEASES; ULTRASONICS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APOCRINE CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; AXILLARY ULTRASOUND; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLLOID CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIBRIFORM CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUBULAR CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84867016744     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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