Occult breast carcinoma in reduction mammaplasty specimens: 14-Year experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1984-1988

  Colwell, Amy S ^a,b   Kukreja, Jasleen ^a,b   Breuing, Karl H ^a,b   Lester, Susan ^a,b   Orgill, Dennis P ^a,b  

^a Brigham and Women's Hospital ^*

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST REDUCTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 3242712378     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000122212.37703.6E     Document Type: Article

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