## BACKGROUND. Routine histologic examination of axillary sentinel lymph nodes predicts axillary lymph node status and may spare patients with breast carcinoma axillary lymph node dissection. To avoid the need for two separate surgical sessions, the results of sentinel lymph node examination shoul
Histopathologic examination of axillary sentinel lymph nodes in breast carcinoma patients
โ Scribed by Giuseppe Viale; Angelica Sonzogni; Giancarlo Pruneri; Fausto Maffini; Michele Masullo; Patrizia Dell'Orto; Giovanni Mazzarol
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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