Agreement between preoperative core needle biopsy and postoperative invasive breast cancer histopathology is not dependent on the amount of clinical material obtained

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 193-195

  O'Leary, R ^a   Hawkins, K ^a   Beazley, J C S ^a   Lansdawn, M R J ^b   Hanby, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOSIS INDEX; NEEDLE BIOPSY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SLICE;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0842287357     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2003.12914     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Pinder SE, Elston CW, Ellis IO. The role of pre-operative diagnosis in breast cancer. Histopathology 1996;28:563-6.
2. Verkooijen HM, Peeters PHM, Buskens E, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of large-core needle biopsy for nonpalpable breast disease: a meta-analysis. Br J Cancer 2000;82:1017-21.
3. Denley H, Pinder SE, Elston CW, et al. Preoperative assessment of prognostic factors in breast cancer. J Clin Pathol 2001;54:20-4.
4. Non-operative Diagnosis Subgroup of the National Coordinating Group for Breast Screening Pathology. Guidelines for non-operative diagnostic procedures and reporting in breast cancer screening. Sheffield: NHS Cancer Screening Programmes, 2001 (NHS Publication No. 50, ISBN 1 871997 44 5).
5. Elston CW, Ellis IO. Pathological prognostic factors in breast cancer. I. The value of histological grade in breast cancer: experience from a large study with long term follow-up, Histopathology 1991;19:403-10.
6. Harris GC, Denley HE, Pinder SE, et al. Correlation of histologic prognostic factors in core biopsies and therapeutic excisions of invasive breast carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 2003;27:11-15.
7. Sharifi S, Peterson MK, Baum AK, et al. Assessment of pathologic prognostic factors in breast core needle biopsies. Mod Pathol 1999;12:941-5.
8. Liberman L, Dershaw DD, Rosen PP, et al. Stereotaxic 14-gauge breast biopsy-how many core biopsy specimens are needed. Radiology 1994;192:793-5.
9. Fishman JE, Milikowski C, Ramsinghani R, et al. US-guided core-needle biopsy of the breast: how many specimens are necessary? Radiology 2003;226:779-82.