Did Rembrandt's Bathsheba really have breast cancer?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 231-232

  Bourne, R G ^a,b  

^a QLD Radium Institute Mater Centre ^*  (Australia)

^b Queensland Radium Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bathsheba; Breast abscess; Breast cancer; Rembrandt; Tuberculous mastitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY; HUMAN; PAINTING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MASTITIS; MEDICINE IN ART; PAINTINGS; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 0034036212     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01792.x     Document Type: Article

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