Outcomes of clinical and surgical assessment of women with pathological nipple discharge

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-128

  Vargas, Hernan I ^a,b   Vargas, M Perla ^a   Eldrageely, Kamal ^a   Gonzalez, Katherine D ^a   Khalkhali, Iraj ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Surgical Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST DISCHARGE; BREAST DUCT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AGED; BIOPSY; BLEEDING; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; MAMMARY GLAND; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLE; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 33645280113     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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