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Pseudo-micropapillary structures associated with columnar cell lesions of the breast are an artifact due to traumatic epithelial detachment: a potential pitfall which can lead to overtreatment

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  1. Department of Pathology, Nagoya Medical Center, 4-1-1 Sannomaru Naka-ku Nagoya, 460-0001, Aichi, Japan

    Shu Ichihara, Suzuko Moritani & Masaki Hasegawa

  2. Department of Senology, Nagoya Medical Center, 4-1-1 Sannomaru Naka-ku Nagoya, 460-0001, Aichi, Japan

    Takako Morita

  3. Department of Radiology, Nagoya Medical Center, 4-1-1 Sannomaru Naka-ku Nagoya, 460-0001, Aichi, Japan

    Mikinao Oiwa & Tokiko Endo

  4. Department of Surgery, Nagoya Medical Center, 4-1-1 Sannomaru Naka-ku Nagoya, 460-0001, Aichi, Japan

    Takako Hayashi, Aya Kato & Yasuyuki Sato

  5. Department of Pathology, Asahi University Murakami Memorial Hospital, 3-23 Hashimoto-cho Gifu, 500-8523, Gifu, Japan

    Shigeyuki Sugie

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Ichihara, S., Moritani, S., Hasegawa, M. et al. Pseudo-micropapillary structures associated with columnar cell lesions of the breast are an artifact due to traumatic epithelial detachment: a potential pitfall which can lead to overtreatment. Virchows Arch 463, 93–95 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-013-1431-3

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