Extensive extranodal metastases of basal-like breast cancer with predominant myoepithelial spindle cell differentiation

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 334-337

  Trepp, Roman ^a   Padberg, Barbara C ^a   Varga, Zsuzsanna ^b   Cathomas, Richard ^a   Inauen, Roman ^a   Reinhart, Walter H ^a  

^a KANTONSSPITAL GRAUBÜNDEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breast Immunohistochemistry; Myoepithelial carcinoma; Triple negative breast cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEART METASTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LESION; LUNG METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYOEPITHELIOMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHENOTYPE; SKIN METASTASIS; SPINDLE CELL; THORAX INJURY;

EID: 77952544554     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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