Variability in gross and microscopic pathology reporting in excisional biopsies of breast cancer tissue

Breast Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-149

  Apple, Sophia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Outside slide reviews; Pathology reports

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENERAL PATHOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; ORGAN WEIGHT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33645456523     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1075-122X.2006.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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