Endometrial cytologic findings in tamoxifen-treated breast cancer patients

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-28

  Hachisuga, Toru ^a,b   Emoto, Makoto ^b   Kawarabayashi, Tatsuhiko ^b   Kamihara, Yutaka ^b   Nabeshima, Kazuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Endometrium; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AMENORRHEA; ANISOKARYOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DEVICE; ENDOMETRIUM ATROPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENDOMETRIUM CYTOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 59849129827     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325081     Document Type: Article

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