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Proceedings of the Consensus Conference on the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in carcinoma of the breast, April 19–22, 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
✍ Scribed by Gordon F. Schwartz; Armando E. Giuliano; Umberto Veronesi; Consensus Conference Committee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 94
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
A consensus conference on the role of sentinel node biopsy in breast carcinoma was held in Philadelphia, April 19‐22, 2001. The current report summarizes the deliberations of the group and advances its current guidelines for the integration of this new technique into contemporary clinical practice.
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