Extramedullary haematopoiesis in axillary lymph nodes following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Takhar, Arunjit Singh ^a   Ney, Alex ^a   Patel, Meera ^b   Sharma, Anup ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; WIDE EXCISION;

EID: 84879485653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-008943     Document Type: Article

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