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Management of the Positive Axilla in 2017
The role of surgery in breast cancer treatment and axillary staging is changing. It is not very far from today, when axillary dissection was the standard treatment and staging procedure for all stages of breast cancer. Today, we are on the edge of omitting axillary dissection even in patients with t...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453747/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28589065 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1216 |
Sumario: | The role of surgery in breast cancer treatment and axillary staging is changing. It is not very far from today, when axillary dissection was the standard treatment and staging procedure for all stages of breast cancer. Today, we are on the edge of omitting axillary dissection even in patients with the axillary disease. In this review, we walked through the changes in axillary management throughout the past hundred years. |
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