Metastatic mammary carcinomas with endocrine features: Potential diagnostic pitfalls

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-53

  Saqi, Anjali ^a   Oster, Martin W ^a   Vazquez, Madeline F ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Carcinoid; Carcinoma; Endocrine; Metastases; Neuroendocrine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MAMMARY CARCINOMA WITH ENDOCRINE DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOGRANINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 21644467613     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20298     Document Type: Review

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