A case of granulomatous mastitis mimicking breast carcinoma

Breast Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 265-268

  Sakurai, Teruhisa ^a,b   Oura, Shoji ^a   Tanino, Hirokazu ^a   Yoshimasu, Tatsuya ^a   Kokawa, Yozo ^a   Kinoshita, Takahiro ^b   Okamura, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Koyo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Elderly woman; Granulomatous mastitis; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTITIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MASTITIS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036370238     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02967601     Document Type: Article

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