Three years of experience with routine use of telepathology in assessment of excisional and aspirate biopsies of breast lesions

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 449-457

  Hitchcock, Charles L ^a   Hitchcock, Lauren E ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 18844364663     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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