Malignant pleural and pericardial effusion in invasive breast cancer: Impact of the site of the primary tumor

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-142

  Pokieser, W ^a,d   Cassik, P ^b   Fischer, G ^b   Vesely, M ^a   Ulrich, W ^a   Peters Engl, C ^c  

^a Institute for Clinical Pathology   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^d Pathologisches Institut   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Malignant effusion; Metastases; Quadrants; Tumor location

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0742321704     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BREA.0000010706.24181.b6     Document Type: Article

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