Dermal lymphatic emboli in inflammatory and noninflammatory breast cancer: a French-Tunisian joint study in 337 patients.
@article{L2005DermalLE,
title={Dermal lymphatic emboli in inflammatory and noninflammatory breast cancer: a French-Tunisian joint study in 337 patients.},
author={Monique G. L{\^e} and Rodrigo A Arriagada and Gen{\`e}vieve Contesso and Mohamed Cammoun and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}rique Pfeiffer and Françoise Tabbane and Jacqueline Bahi and Mich{\`e}le Dilaj and Marc Spielmann and Jean-Paul Travagli and Thomas Tursz and Nejib Mourali},
journal={Clinical breast cancer},
year={2005},
volume={6 5},
pages={
439-45
}
}
BACKGROUND
We studied whether dermal lymphatic emboli (DLE) add independent prognostic information to the clinical definition of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC).
PATIENTS AND METHODS
The study was performed in 2 centers, one each in France and Tunisia. For every patient with IBC, 1-3 patients with noninflammatory breast cancer (non-IBC) were included. All patients were to have a surgical tumor biopsy, including a sample of the skin surrounding the tumor. The endpoint was the risk of a… CONTINUE READING