Management of lesions of uncertain malignant potential on breast core needle histology: Vacuum-assisted excision as an alternative to surgical excision

Breast

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 543-544

  Bilous, Michael ^a   Houssami, Nehmat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RISK; CORE NEEDLE BIOPSY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VACUUM ASSISTED EXCISION;

EID: 56649097345     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2008.10.001     Document Type: Editorial

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