When is a lymph node dissection a lymph node dissection? the number of lymph nodes resected in sentinel and axillary lymph node dissections

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 627-632

  Olaya, Windy ^a   Wong, Jasmine ^a   Wong, Jan ^b   Morgan, John ^c   Kazanjian, Kevork ^a   Lum, Sharon ^a,c  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE EXTIRPATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE DISSECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878889894     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2642-6     Document Type: Article

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