Role of preoperative plasma CA 15-3 and carcinoembryonic antigen levels in determining histopathologic conventional prognostic factors for breast cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 519-521

  Seker, Duray ^a,b   Kaya, Oskay ^a   Adabag, Aysegul ^a   Necipoglu, Gaye ^a   Baran, Ismet ^a  

^a SSK Ankara Training Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0043076042     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-6748-7     Document Type: Article

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