Clinical characteristics of small cell carcinoma of the breast

Oncology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 981-985

  Sadanaga, Noriaki ^a,b   Okada, Satoko ^a   Shiotani, Satoko ^a   Morita, Masaru ^a   Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^a   Kitamura, Kaoru ^b   Tamiya, Sadafumi ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinicopathological findings; Small cell carcinoma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPANESE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 43849106339     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.19.4.981     Document Type: Article

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