Occult metastases in the sentinel lymph
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Kambiz Dowlatshahi; Ming Fan; Kenneth J. Bloom; Daniel J. Spitz; Samir Patel; Ho
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## 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