Organotropism and prognostic marker discordance in distant metastases of breast carcinoma: Fact or fiction? A clinicopathologic analysis

Human Pathology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 398-404

  St Romain, Paul ^a   Madan, Rashna ^a   Tawfik, Ossama W ^a   Damjanov, Ivan ^a   Fan, Fang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer metastasis; Discordance; Organotropism

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857040861     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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