Specimen adequacy and false-negative diagnosis rate in fine-needle aspirates of palpable breast masses

Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 344-348

  Boerner, Scott ^a   Sneige, Nour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; False negative diagnosis; Fine needle aspiration; Specimen adequacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL COUNT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0032567280     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19981225)84:6<344::AID-CNCR5>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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