Metastatic breast cancer masquerading as gastrointestinal primary

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-114

  Schwarz, Roderich E ^a   Klimstra, David S ^a   Turnbull, Alan D M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATIETY; STOMACH TUMOR;

AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032410665     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.111_c.x     Document Type: Article

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