Critical appraisal of cytological nuclear grading in carcinoma of the breast and its correlation with ER/PR expression

Journal of Cytology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 58-61

  Bhargava, Vidhi ^a   Jain, Manjula ^a,b   Agarwal, Kiran ^a   Thomas, S ^a   Singh, Smita ^a  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Estrogen receptor; fine needle aspiration cytology; Nuclear grading; progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949147282     PISSN: 09709371     EISSN: 09745165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9371.42445     Document Type: Article

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