Epithelial displacement during breast needle core biopsy causes diagnostic difficulties in subsequent surgical excision specimens

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-376

  Phelan, Sine M ^a   O'Doherty, Ann ^a   Hill, Arnold ^a   Quinn, Cecily M ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM SEEDING;

EID: 34247174315     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2006.036996     Document Type: Article

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