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Mammography has drawn attention to a number of different kinds of calcifications that may occur in the human breast. The various etiologic forms of breast calcifications (BRANDT and BÄSSLER 1969, 1972), their morphology (HAMPERL 1968; STEGNER and PAPE 1972), and their composition have been studied by experimental pathophysiologic, histologic, and physicochemical methods. The following briefly summarizes the results of these studies.
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Lanyi, M. (1988). Pathogenesis, Pathophysiology, and Composition of Breast Calcifications. In: Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Breast Calcifications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71493-1_3
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