Meeting surgical necessities for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: Experience with methylene blue in a colombian hospital

Breast Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 618-619

  Angarita, Fernando A ^a,b   Acuna, Sergio A ^a,b   Cervera, Sergio ^a   Torregrosa, Lilian ^a   Tawil, Mauricio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN IGNACIO   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; BREAST CANCER; DRUG ERUPTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LETTER; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; TATTOOING; URTICARIA; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLOMBIA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; METHYLENE BLUE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 84868555212     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbj.12022     Document Type: Letter

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