Does the new automated "HALO" nipple aspiration fluid system really deliver as promised? The answer is "no, but...": A literature review of the role of breast fluid cytology in cancer risk assessment

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 699-704

  Elsheikh, Tarik M ^a  

^a BALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypia; Breast cytology; Cancer risk; HALO; Nipple aspiration fluid

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NIPPLE ASPIRATION FLUID SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BODY FLUIDS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; NIPPLES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 68849100984     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21124     Document Type: Review

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