Surgery
Volume 144, Issue 4 , Pages 606-610, October 2008

The use of radioisotope combined with isosulfan blue dye is not superior to radioisotope alone for the identification of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer

  • Steven Bines, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Steven D. Bines, MD, Department of General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612.
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  • Katherine Kopkash, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Amjad Ali, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
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  • Louis Fogg, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rush University School of Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill
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  • Norman Wool, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Accepted 19 June 2008.

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 Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 6–8, 2008.

PII: S0039-6060(08)00425-X

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2008.06.023

Surgery
Volume 144, Issue 4 , Pages 606-610, October 2008

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