An audit of excised breast lumps in Ghanaian women

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 252-255

  Ohene Yeboah, Michael O K ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Breast disease patterns; Excised breast masses; Histopathology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GHANA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PAPILLOMA; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHILD; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; GHANA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 28344453658     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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