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Determining axillary concordance rate for different injection locations in sentinel node mapping of breast cancer: how ambitious can we get?

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  1. Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Ramin Sadeghi & Seyed Rasoul Zakavi

  2. Surgical Oncology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Mehdi Asadi

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Center, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland

    Giorgio Treglia

  4. Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Surgery Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Asiehsadat Fattahi

  5. Division of Surgical Oncology Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Given Building, Rm E309, 89 Beaumont Ave, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    David N. Krag

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This rebuttal letter refers to the letter to the editor article 10.1007/s10549-014-2937-3

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Sadeghi, R., Asadi, M., Treglia, G. et al. Determining axillary concordance rate for different injection locations in sentinel node mapping of breast cancer: how ambitious can we get?. Breast Cancer Res Treat 146, 231–232 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-014-2938-2

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