Clinicopathological study of breast tissue in female-to-male transsexuals

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1067-1071

  Kuroda, Hajime ^a,b   Ohnisi, Kiyoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Goi ^c   Itoyama, Shinji ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b International University of Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^c Academy of Breast Pathology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen; Female to male transsexual; Mammary gland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANDROGENS; BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSSEXUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57049118640     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3758-3     Document Type: Article

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