E-cadherin expression on fine needle aspiration biopsies of breast invasive ductal carcinomas and its relationship to clinicopathologic factors

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 363-367

  Kalogeraki, Alexandra ^a   Garbagnati, Francesco ^b   Santinami, Mario ^b   Zoras, Odyseas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Breast cancer; Carcinoma; Ductal; E cadherins

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PARAPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIEMSA STAIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0038026087     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326534     Document Type: Article

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