Prevalence of Klinefelter's syndrome in male breast cancer patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6 D, 1997, Pages 4293-4297

  Hultborn, R ^a   Hanson, C ^a   Kopf I ^a   Verbiene I ^a   Warnhammar, E ^a   Weimarck, A ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fluorescence in situ hybridisation; Klinefelter's syndrome; Male breast cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CELL NUCLEUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE BREAST; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SWEDEN;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031417923     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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