Nuclear grooves in fine-needle aspiration biopsies of breast lesions: Do they have any significance?

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 333-337

  Novak, Joseph A ^a,b   Masood, Shahla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Medical College of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast pathology; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Nuclear grooves

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; BREAST METASTASIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031966969     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199805)18:5<333::AID-DC5>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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