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Infiltrating Duct Carcinoma

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Atlas of Breast Pathology

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Infiltrating duct carcinomas comprise the majority of invasive cancers and most of the tumours are depicted without special features, or not otherwise specified (NOS)1. Some workers divide these tumours into (1) stellate carcinomas with productive fibrosis and (2) circumscribed or multinodular carcinomas2.

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  1. Guy’s Hospital and Imperial Cancer Research Fund Breast Cancer Unit at Guy’s and New Cross Hospitals, London, UK

    Rosemary R. Millis (Consultant Histopathologist)

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Millis, R.R. (1984). Infiltrating Duct Carcinoma. In: Atlas of Breast Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6589-8_14

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