The significance of the diagnosis of atypia in breast fine-needle aspiration

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 285-288

  Lim, Jennifer C ^a   Al Masri, Hytham ^a   Salhadar, Alia ^a   Xie, H Bill ^b   Gabram, Sheryl ^a   Wojcik, Eva M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical ductal hyperplasia; Breast atypia; Breast cytology; Breast FNA; Fibroadenoma

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATYPIA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS;

EID: 7444232051     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20123     Document Type: Article

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