Nipple discharge: Is its significance as a risk factor for breast cancer fully understood? Observational study including 915 consecutive patients who underwent selective duct excision

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 895-900

  Montroni, Isacco ^a   Santini, Donatella ^a   Zucchini, Giorgia ^a   Fiacchi, Monica ^a   Zanotti, Simone ^a   Ugolini, Giampaolo ^a   Manaresi, Alessio ^a   Taffurelli, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Nipple discharge; Risk factors; Selective duct excision; Surgery

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; METHYLENE BLUE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DISCHARGE; BREAST NECROSIS; CANCER RISK; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EXCISION; FISTULA; GALACTOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; ENDOSCOPY; EXUDATE; FEMALE; ITALY; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NIPPLE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECRETION;

BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; ENDOSCOPY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NIPPLES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79952119072     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-010-0815-1     Document Type: Review

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