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Occult “micrometastases” in ductal carcinoma in situ : Investigative implications for sentinel lymph node biopsy.

✍ Scribed by Donald L. Weaver

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
55 KB
Volume
98
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

Sentinel lymph node biopsy is frequently associated with identification of micrometastatic tumor deposits. The clinical relevance of identifying micrometastases in breast cancer must be evaluated in the statistical context of the lymph node evaluation strategy and the likelihood of missing a metastasis of similar size.

See also pages 2105–13.

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