Prognostic markers in breast cancer: the reliability of HER2/neu status in core needle biopsy of 325 patients with primary breast cancer.

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Published in Wien Klin Wochenschr on January 31, 2004

Authors

Susanne Taucher1, Margaretha Rudas, Robert M Mader, Michael Gnant, Peter Dubsky, Sebastian Roka, Thomas Bachleitner, Daniela Kandioler, Günther Steger, Martina Mittlböck, Raimund Jakesz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Vienna University Medical School, Vienna, Austria. susanne.taucher@univie.ac.at

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