A study of the clinical features and the treatment of breast cancer in 374 patients in Iran

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Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 132-135

  Salsali, Morteza ^a,c   Tazejani, Dehghan ^a   Javadi, Amir ^a   Mahmud, Babak ^a   Sali, Hamid Reza ^a   Hirani, Ali ^a   Baghbanian, Mohamed ^a   Hajipour, Rambod ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical features; Iran; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY;

EID: 0038207116     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160308900205     Document Type: Article

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