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Visceral fat metabolic activity evaluated by preoperative (18)F-FDG PET/CT significantly affects axillary lymph node metastasis in postmenopausal luminal breast cancer

Obesity is known to increase breast cancer risk and aggressiveness in postmenopausal luminal breast cancer and obesity-driven dysfunctional metabolic activity in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is considered as one of the principal underlying mechanism. We aimed to investigate the relationship between...

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Autores principales: Pahk, Kisoo, Joung, Chanmin, Kim, Sungeun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6987196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57937-4