Cytological grading of breast cancers and comparative evaluation of two grading systems

Journal of Cytology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 55-58

  Wani, Farooq Ahmed ^a   Bhardwaj, Subhash ^b   Kumar, Dinesh ^b   Katoch, Pervez ^b  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; chemotherapy; cytological grading

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957800922     PISSN: 09709371     EISSN: 09745165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9371.70738     Document Type: Article

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