Clinicocytopathology of breast cancers with a ring-like appearance on ultrasonography and/or magnetic resonance imaging

Pathology International

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-26

  Yamaguchi, Rin ^a   Tanaka, Maki ^a   Yokoyama, Toshiro ^a   Nonaka, Hideyuki ^a   Kojima, Kazuyuki ^b   Terasaki, Hiroshi ^c   Yamaguchi, Miki ^a   Fukunaga, Mari ^a   Toh, Uhi ^a   Nakashima, Osamu ^a   Kage, Masayoshi ^a   Yano, Hirohisa ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acellular zone; Breast; Cytology; Matrix producing carcinoma; Ring like appearance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER SIZE; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CYTOPATHOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, ACINAR CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 73649140311     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02471.x     Document Type: Article

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