Benign breast surgical biopsies: Are they always justified?

Tumori

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 521-524

  Ciatto, Stefano ^a   Bonardi, Rita ^a   Ravaioli, Alberto ^b   Canuti, Debora ^b   Foglietta, Flavia ^a   Modena, Stefano ^c   Zanconati, Fabrizio ^d   Cressa, Cristina ^e   Ferrara, Paola ^f   Marrazzo, Antonio ^g  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^b Hospital degli Infermi   (Italy)

^c Divisione Chirurgia Generale C Borgo Roma Hospital   (Italy)

^d Istituto Anatomia Patologia   (Italy)

^e Istituto di Radiologia   (Italy)

^f MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Ist Clin e Fisiopatologica Chir   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Breast cancer; Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0031693930     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089169808400502     Document Type: Article

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