Breast metastases of gastric signet ring cell carcinoma: A differential diagnosis with primary breast signet ring cell carcinoma

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-127

  Qureshi, S S ^a   Shrikhande, S V ^a   Tanuja, S ^a   Shukla, P J ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Breast metastases; Signet ring cell carcinoma; Stomach neoplasm

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22144442074     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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