Morphometric analysis of the epithelium of mammary fibroadenomas during the proliferative and secretory phases of the menstrual cycle

Breast Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 256-261

  Simomoto, Mary Miyazawa ^a,b   Nazário, Afonso Celso Pinto ^a   Gebrim, Luiz Henrique ^a   Simões, Manoel Jesus ^a   Baracat, Edmund Chada ^a   Rodrigues De Lima, Geraldo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell kinetics; Fibroadenoma; Menstrual cycle

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MITOSIS RATE; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

EID: 0032818020     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.1999.98099.x     Document Type: Article

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