Is breast specimen shrinkage really a problem in breast-conserving surgery?

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-227

  Krekel, Nicole M A ^a   Van Slooten, Henk Jan ^b   Barbé, Ellis ^a   De Lange De Klerk, Elly S M ^a   Meijer, Sybren ^a   Van Den Tol, M Petrousjka ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84857346255     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200392     Document Type: Article

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