## 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
Occult metastases to the scalene lymph nodes in patients with clinically operable carcinoma of the cervix
โ Scribed by Alfred S. Ketcham; Paul B. Chretien; Robert C. Hoye; John D. Harrah; Peter J. Deckers; Everett V. Sugarbaker; Peyton T. Taylor; Alan S. Rabson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 302 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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