Fractal dimensions of breast lesions on cytology smears

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-86

  Dey, Pranab ^a,b   Mohanty, Sambit K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b KUWAIT CANCER CONTROL CENTER   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Fractal dimension; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INFILTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOMETRICS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANK SUM TEST;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FRACTALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0043239209     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10324     Document Type: Article

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