PMID: 9420919Jan 1, 1992Paper

Breast biopsies: the content of the surgical pathology report

Pathology : Official Publication of the California Society of Pathologists
O W KamelR L Kempson

Abstract

In the context of recent developments, the role of the surgical pathologist in evaluating and reporting breast cancer specimens has become more important. The pathologist must not only diagnose carcinoma in a given patient, but must also document a set of morphologic features that have been shown to be important in determining prognosis and guiding therapy.

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