Breast cancer clinicopathological presentation, gravity and challenges in eritrea, East Africa: Management practice in a resource-poor setting

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 526-528

  Tesfamariam, A ^a   Gebremichael, A ^a   Mufunda, J ^b  

^a Orotta School of Medicine and Dentistry   (South Africa)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISCHARGE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; DEBRIDEMENT; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ERITREA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTALGIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PREMENOPAUSE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ULCER;

ADULT; AFRICA, EASTERN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84880849031     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.6829     Document Type: Article

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