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    Altered lymphatic drainage patterns in re-operative sentinel lymph node biopsy for ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence

    This study aimed to evaluate the impact of previous local treatment on lymphatic drainage patterns in ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) based on our data on re-operative sentinel lymph node biopsy (re...

    Ayaka Sato, Takehiko Sakai, Takuji Iwase, Fumiko Kano, Kiyomi Kimura in Radiation Oncology (2019)

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    Long-term prognoses and outcomes of axillary lymph node recurrence in 2,578 sentinel lymph node-negative patients for whom axillary lymph node dissection was omitted: results from one Japanese hospital

    Axillary dissection omission for sentinel lymph node-negative patients has been a practice at Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research since 2003. We examined the long-term results of...

    Akiko Ogiya, Kiyomi Kimura, Eri Nakashima, Takehiko Sakai, Yumi Miyagi in Breast Cancer (2016)

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    Validation study of the UICC TNM classification of malignant tumors, seventh edition, in breast cancer

    The TNM classification of the Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum was revised for the seventh edition. The major change concerning breast cancer is a change in the stages for patients with T0 or T1N1miM0. In t...

    Natsue Uehiro, Rie Horii, Takuji Iwase, Masahiko Tanabe, Takehiko Sakai in Breast Cancer (2014)

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    Ductal carcinoma in situ and sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer

    The impact of sentinel lymph node biopsy on breast cancer mimicking ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a matter of debate.

    Keiichiro Tada, Akiko Ogiya, Kiyomi Kimura in World Journal of Surgical Oncology (2010)

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    Ultrasonographically guided 18-gauge automated core needle breast biopsy with post-fire needle position verification (PNPV)

    Percutaneous imaging-guided core needle biopsy (CNB) is being used increasingly as an alternative to surgical biopsy for the diagnosis of breast lesions that are suspicious or highly suggestive of malignancy. ...

    Takayoshi Uematsu, Masako Kasami, Yoshihiro Uchida, Sachiko Yuen in Breast Cancer (2007)

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    A case of diabetic mastopathy with multiple lesions mimicking breast cancer

    We report a case of diabetic mastopathy with multiple unilateral lesions in an insulin dependent patient. The patient was a 62-year-old woman with two hard tumors in the right breast, who had been treated with...

    Yoshihito Utada, Toshiaki Watanabe, Tetsuro Kajiwara, Tadao Shimizu in Breast Cancer (2003)

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    Monotherapy with paclitaxel as third-line chemotherapy against anthracycline-pretreated and docetaxel-refractory metastatic breast cancer

    We describe a patient with anthracycline-pretreated and docetaxel-refractory metastatic breast cancer who achieved a complete response after third-line chemotherapy with paclitaxel. A 59-year-old woman underwe...

    Jun Kinoshita, Shunsuke Haga, Tadao Shimizu, Hiroshi Imamura in Breast Cancer (2002)

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    Maximum density of tumor staining obtained by preoperative IV-DSA as a prognostic indicator for node-negative breast cancer

    We previously demonstrated that the density of tumor enhancement by intravenous digital subtraction angiography (IV-DSA) is correlated with the number of tumor microvessels and that the incidence of distant me...

    Osamu Watanabe, Shunsuke Haga, Tadao Shimizu, Hiroshi Imamura in Breast Cancer (1999)