Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 205, Issue 1 , Pages 66-71 , July 2007

Does Failure to Visualize a Sentinel Node on Preoperative Lymphoscintigraphy Predict a Greater Likelihood of Axillary Lymph Node Positivity?

Presented at the 28th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, TX, 2005.

Received 8 December 2006 ,Revised 24 January 2007 ,Accepted 29 January 2007.

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 Competing Interests Declared: None.

PII: S1072-7515(07)00155-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.01.064

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 205, Issue 1 , Pages 66-71 , July 2007

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