The role of axillary ultrasound in the detection of metastases from primary breast cancers

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 242-245

  Yamashita, Mary ^a   Hovanessian Larsen, Linda ^a   Sener, Stephen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary metastases; Axillary ultrasound; Breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; AXILLARY ULTRASONOGRAPHY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874116373     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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