False-negative core needle biopsies of the breast : An analysis of clinical, radiologic, and pathologic findings in 27 consecutive cases of missed breast cancer

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✍ Varsha I. Shah; Usha Raju; Dhananjay Chitale; Vikram Deshpande; Nancy Gregory; V 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 478 KB

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND A benign diagnosis in a core needle biopsy (CNBx) of the breast performed for a clinically and/or radiologically suspicious abnormality is often due to a nonrepresentative sample. However, the discordance may not be recognized, resulting in a logistic delay in the diagnos