Invasive apocrine carcinoma of the breast: Clinicopathologic features of 57 patients

Breast Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-168

  Tanaka, Kimihiro ^a   Imoto, Shigeru ^a   Wada, Noriaki ^a   Sakemura, Noriko ^a   Hasebe, Kahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apocrine carcinoma; Axillary nodal metastasis; Breast cancer; Hormone receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; APOCRINE CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; APOCRINE GLANDS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 40349085411     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2007.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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