Screen-detected breast lesions with malignant needle core biopsy diagnoses and no malignancy identified in subsequent surgical excision specimens (potential false-positive diagnosis)

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1162-1167

  Rakha, Emad A ^a   El Sayed, Maysa E ^a,b   Reed, Jacquie ^c   Lee, Andrew H S ^a   Evans, Andrew J ^c   Ellis, Ian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

False positive cores; Needle core biopsy; Screen detected breast lesions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST LESION; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 64049109679     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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