Impact of internal mammary lymph node drainage identified by preoperative lymphoscintigraphy on outcomes in patients with stage i to III breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6287-6296

  Kong, Amanda L ^a,b   Tereffe, Welela ^a   Hunt, Kelly K ^a   Yi, Min ^a   Kang, Taewoo ^a,c   Weatherspoon, Kimberly ^a   Mittendorf, Elizabeth A ^a   Bedrosian, Isabelle ^a   Hwang, Rosa F ^a   Babiera, Gildy V ^a   Buchholz, Thomas A ^a   Meric Bernstam, Funda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Pusan National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

breast cancer; internal mammary lymph nodes; lymph nodes; lymphoscintigraphy

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY LYMPH NODE; IRRADIATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870656742     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27564     Document Type: Review

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