Morphological characteristics of basal-like subtype of breast carcinoma with special reference to cytopathological features

Breast Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-185

  Ishihara, Akinori ^a   Tsuda, Hitoshi ^b   Kitagawa, Kakuya ^c   Yoneda, Misao ^d   Shiraishi, Taizou ^d  

^a Matsusaka Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal like subtype; Breast carcinoma; Cytopathology; Histopathology; Triple negative

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; UVOMORULIN;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BASAL LIKE BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; NEOPLASMS, BASAL CELL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 68349113792     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-009-0108-x     Document Type: Review

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