Fine needle aspiration cytologic features of medullary carcinoma of the breast: A study of 20 cases with histologic correlation

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-173

  Akbulut, Metin ^a   Zekioglu, Osman ^b,d   Kapkac, Murat ^c   Ozdemir, Necmettin ^b  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d Ege Universtiy   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEOLUS; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 64549102139     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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