Metaplastic breast carcinoma with chondrosarcomatous differentiation: Fine-needle aspiration cytology findings. A case report

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 772-775

  Kato, Taku ^a,c   Tohnosu, Noriyuki ^a   Suwa, Tomoko ^a   Takahashi, Hisao ^a   Tokuizumi, Miyuki ^a   Uehara, Toshitaka ^a   Kobayashi, Tadao K ^b  

^a Funabashi Municipal Medical Center   (Japan)

^b Medical Care Center   (Japan)

^c Funabashi Municipal Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Chondrosarcomatous cells; FNA cytology; Metaplastic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CARCINOMA CELL; CARTILAGE CELL; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME; METAPLASIA; METAPLASTIC BREAST CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METAPLASIA;

EID: 33750520547     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20550     Document Type: Article

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