Characterization of columnar cell lesions of the breast: immunophenotypic analysis of columnar alteration of lobules with prominent apical snouts and secretions

Human Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 284-292

  Dessauvagie, Benjamin F ^a,b   Zhao, Wenying ^a,c   Heel Miller, Kathryn A ^b   Harvey, Jennet ^b,d   Bentel, Jacqueline M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Department of Pathology   (China)

^d PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast; Carcinoma; Columnar alterations of lobules; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; KI 67 ANTIGEN; STEROID RECEPTOR; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLUMNAR ALTERATION OF LOBULES WITH PROMINENT APICAL SNOUT AND SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MAMMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CADHERINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 33846196723     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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