Evaluation of needle aspirates and tissue sections as prognostic factors in mammary carcinoma
Wallgren, A.; Silfverswärd, C.; Zajicek, J.
Acta Cytologica 20(4): 313-318
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5547 PMID: 183435 Document Number: 101910
The prognostic influence in operable mammary carcinoma of morphologic predictors evaluated in smears of needle-biopsy aspirate and in tissue sections and of clinical stage was investigated. Size of nuclei in smears of aspirate was found to convey prognostic information of the same order of importance as the variables tubule information and mitotic frequency in tissue sections. The combination of clinical stage with variables in smears and in sections enhanced the explanatory value.