Axillary nodal metastasis of occult breast primary cancer

Chirurgia (Romania)

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-471

  Tamiolakis, D ^a   Antoniou, Ch ^b  

^a Department of Cytopathology Regional Hospital of Chania   (Greece)

^b Second Department of Surgery   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904823141     PISSN: 12219118     EISSN: 1842368X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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