## BACKGROUND. Thirty percent of lymph node negative patients with operable breast carcinoma experience disease recurrence within 10 years. Retrospective serial sectioning of axillary lymph nodes has revealed undetected metastases in 9 -30% of these patients. These occult metastases have been show
Management of inguinal lymph node metastases in patients with carcinoma of the anal canal : Experience in a series of 270 patients treated in Lyon and review of the literature
✍ Scribed by Jean-Pierre Gerard; Olivier Chapet; Farad Samiei; Eric Morignat; Sylvie Isaac; Christian Paulin; Pascale Romestaing; Véronique Favrel; Françoise Mornex; Jean-Yves Bobin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 87 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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