Monckeberg medial calcific sclerosis mimicking malignant calcification pattern at mammography [4]

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 447-448

  Saxena, A ^a   Woddell, I C ^b   Friesen, R W ^c   Michalski, R T ^c  

^a ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Victoria Hospital   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONCKEBERG MEDIAL CALCIFIC SCLEROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 17144394480     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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