Publication: A prospective comparative study to assess the contribution of radioisotope tracer method to dye-only method in the detection of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer
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2013-04-25T00:00:00Z
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Eser, Mehmet
Kement, Metin
Kaptanoglu, Levent
Gecer, Melin
Abamor, Evrim
Tutal, Firat
Balin, Salim
Kurt, Necmi
Uzun, Huseyin
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Background: Metastasis in the axillary lymph nodes is the most important known prognostic factor for breast cancer. We aimed to investigate the contribution of the radioisotope tracer method to the dye-only method by performing sentinel lymph node biopsy on the same patient group during a single surgical session.
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Eser M., Kement M., Kaptanoglu L., Gecer M., Abamor E., Tutal F., Balin S., Kurt N., Uzun H., -A prospective comparative study to assess the contribution of radioisotope tracer method to dye-only method in the detection of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer-, BMC SURGERY, cilt.13, 2013