Postoperative fever: the potential relationship with prognosis in node negative breast cancer patients.

BACKGROUND: Postoperative fever may serve as an indirect sign to reflect the alterations of the host milieu caused by surgery. It still remains open to investigation whether postoperative fever has a bearing on prognosis in patients with lymph node negative breast cancers. METHODS: We performed a re...

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Main Authors: Tingting Yan, Wenjin Yin, Liheng Zhou, Yiwei Jiang, Zhenzhou Shen, Zhimin Shao, Jinsong Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3012099?pdf=render