A comparision of aspiration cytology and core needle biopsy according to tumor size of suspicious breast lesions

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-31

  Barra, Alexandre De Almeida ^a,c   Gobbi, Helenice ^a   Rezende, César Alencar De L ^a   Gouvêa, Agostinho Pinto ^a   De Lucena, Clécio Ênio Murta ^a   Reis, João Henrique Pena ^b   Silva, Soraya Zhouri Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Mater Dei   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Core biopsy; Fine needle aspiration cytology; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 38349006711     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20748     Document Type: Article

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