Bilateral apocrine carcinoma of the breast: Molecular and immunocytochemical evidence for two independent primary tumours

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 433, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 505-509

  Schmitt, Fernando C ^a   Soares, Raquel ^a   Seruca, Raquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bilateral breast cancer; Breast apocrine carcinoma; c erbB2; Chromosomal abnormalities; p53

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; PROTEIN P53;

AGED; ANEUPLOIDY; APOCRINE CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL GRANULE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 17; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; ONCOGENE C ERB; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TRIPLOIDY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

AGED; ANEUPLOIDY; APOCRINE GLANDS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; SWEAT GLAND NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0031743447     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280050281     Document Type: Article

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