Cytologic nuclear grade of malignant breast aspirates as a predictor of histologic grade

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1107-1111

  Moroz, Krzysztof ^a,b   Lipscomb, Jane ^a   Vial, Lester J ^a   Dhurandhar, Nina ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Breast neoplasms; Computer assisted; Image analysis; Nuclear grading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 0030755702     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332796     Document Type: Article

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