Primary Small Bowel Carcinoid Tumor with Bilateral Breast Metastases: Report of 2 Cases with Different Clinical Presentations

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 292-297

  Mosunjac, Marina B ^a   Kochhar, Ruby ^a   Mosunjac, Mario I ^a   Lau, Stephen K ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER TUMOR; MAMMOGRAPHY; OVARY TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 1542314272     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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