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| | Turkish Journal of Cancer |
 | | The aim of the present study is to classify and to determine the biologic behavior of mammary carcinomas with neuroendocrine differentiation. |
 | | We applied neuron specific enolase and chromogranin-A immunostaining to the formalin fixed, paraffin embedded sections of 58 mastectomy materials diagnosed as infiltrating ductal carcinoma (24), infiltrating lobular carcinoma (15), mucinous carcinoma (8), mixed mammary carcinoma (4), cribriform carcinoma (3), atypical medullary carcinoma (2), papillary carcinoma (1) and carcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation (1). |
 | | As up to 60% positivity was detected with these markers in mammary carcinomas, it may be worth to compare positive and negative marker results for the effect on follow-up and the outcome after chemotherapy for definition of its prognostic importance. |
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