Axillary ultrasound for breast cancer staging: An attempt to identify clinical/histopathological factors impacting diagnostic performance

Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-40

  Ertan, Kubilay ^a   Linsler, Christina ^b   di Liberto, Alexander ^a   Fang Ong, Mei ^b   Solomayer, Erich ^b   Endrikat, Jan ^b  

^a Hospital of Leverkusen   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axillary ultrasound; Breast cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISTANT METASTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874831737     PISSN: 11782234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BCBCR.S11215     Document Type: Article

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