The value of serial bone scanning in ope
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I. J. Monypenny; R. J. Grieve; A. Howell; J. M. Morrison
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Article
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1984
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Abstract The value of initial and serial isotope bone scans was assessed in 685 patients with operable primary breast cancer. Nineteen (2·8 per cent) patients had a positive initial scan and negative skeletal radiographs; only nine of these developed other evidence of metastatic disease after a mean