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Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the breast: diagnostic confusion and future perspectives

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Mr. Satoshi Kanno, Mr. Tomio Honma, and Dr. Bierta Barfod for their technical assistance.

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Tomonori Kawasaki is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (no. 21K06910 and no. 20K08131) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the National Hospital Organization (NHO) Grant (H29-NHO-01).

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  1. Department of Pathology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, 1397-1, Yamane, Hidaka, Saitama, 350-1298, Japan

    Tomonori Kawasaki

  2. Comprehensive Cancer Center, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Saitama, Japan

    Tomonori Kawasaki, Tomoaki Tashima, Yasuhiro Nakamura & Kyoichi Kaira

  3. Department of Pathology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Tomonori Kawasaki & Atsushi Enomoto

  4. Graduate School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan

    Tomonori Kawasaki, Tetsuo Kondo & Jiro Ichikawa

  5. Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization (NHO) Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Tomonori Kawasaki & Hirokazu Nagai

  6. Department of Diagnostic Pathology, NHO Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, Kure, Hiroshima, Japan

    Kiyomi Taniyama

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Conceptualization: Tomonori Kawasaki, Tomoaki Tashima, Kyoichi Kaira; methodology: Tomonori Kawasaki, Hirokazu Nagai, Jiro Ichikawa, Kiyomi Taniyama; writing—original draft preparation: Tomonori Kawasaki, Tomoaki Tashima; writing—review and editing: Atsushi Enomoto, Tetsuo Kondo, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Kyoichi Kaira. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Kawasaki, T., Tashima, T., Enomoto, A. et al. Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the breast: diagnostic confusion and future perspectives. Virchows Arch 482, 929–930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-023-03513-w

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