The many questions that surround multicentric and multifocal breast cancer

Breast Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-221

  Khan, Seema A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CANCER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL;

EID: 77953559100     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2010.00929.x     Document Type: Editorial

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