A case for sending mastectomy scars for routine histopathology [5]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1085-1086

  Sinha, Manish ^a   Gupta, Saurabh ^a   Hogg, Fiona J ^a  

^a CANNIESBURN PLASTIC SURGERY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AUTOGRAFT; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SCAR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 34548462091     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000278201.07892.73     Document Type: Letter

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