The gray zone in breast fine needle aspiration cytology: How to report on it?

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 513-518

  Özkara, Sevgiye Kaçar ^a   Üstün, Melek Özkal ^a   Paksoy, Nadir ^a  

^a Hurriyet Cad Safak Apt 125/17   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Breast neoplasms; Gray zone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BREAST DUCT; BREAST TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOEPITHELIUM; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036092993     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326870     Document Type: Article

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