Sarcoidosis mimicking metastatic breast cancer

Clinical Breast Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 804-810

  Tolaney, Sara M ^a   Colson, Yolanda L ^b   Gill, Ritu R ^b   Schulte, Stephanie ^b   Duggan, Margaret M ^a   Shulman, Lawrence N ^a   Winer, Eric P ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasive ductal carcinoma; Invasive lobular carcinoma; Nonnecrotizing granulomas; Paclitaxel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 36048929217     PISSN: 15268209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CBC.2007.n.044     Document Type: Article

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