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العنوان
AXILLARY ULTRA SOUND AS A PREDICTOR TO AXILLARY DISSECTION IN BREAST CANCER/
الناشر
Waseem Abd El Aziz El Sayed,
المؤلف
El Sayed,Waseem Abd El Aziz
الموضوع
Breast cancer Axillary lymph nodes Axillary ultrasound
تاريخ النشر
2009
عدد الصفحات
p.167:
الفهرس
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المستخلص

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Egypt, representing 18.9% of total cancer cases. Preoperative evaluation of axillary lymph nodes is important to aviod the complications of its dissection, either using carefull preoperative axillary ultrasound or other techniques like sentinnel lymph nodes. Our study using preoperative axillary ultrasound examination on thrity patients found that ultrasound is not a predictor to axillary dissection in case of beast cancer .