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A Fast and Cheap Method for Orienting Breast Lumpectomy Surgical Samples Before Specimen Mammography

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Data are available upon reasonable request from the corresponding author.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the personnel of the radiology wards of the Cancer Institute and Arash Women’s Hospital and also Mrs. Marzieh Orooji and Mrs. Donya Goodarzi who have assisted us in gathering the data.

Funding

The main ongoing study is funded by the Deputy of Research of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, grant number: 99-3-101-50858. However, this paper's work is not funded separately.

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  1. Breast Disease Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mahsa Tavakol, Ramesh Omranipour & Sadaf Alipour

  2. Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Ramesh Omranipour

  3. Department of Surgery, Arash Women’s Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Sadaf Alipour

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation was performed by MT and SA. The first draft of the manuscript was written by SA, and all authors commented on the first draft and reviewed the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Sadaf Alipour.

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The main ongoing study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, ethics code: IR.TUMS.SINAHOSPITAL.REC.1399.119). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Tavakol, M., Omranipour, R. & Alipour, S. A Fast and Cheap Method for Orienting Breast Lumpectomy Surgical Samples Before Specimen Mammography. Indian J Surg Oncol 14, 601–602 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-023-01718-8

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