Clinical Imaging
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 94-101 , March 2011

Do all mucocele-like lesions of the breast require surgery?

  • Selin Carkaci

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1350, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA. Tel.: +1 713 563 7802; fax: +1 713 563 9779.
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  • Deanna L. Lane

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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  • Michael Z. Gilcrease

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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  • David Conrow

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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  • Mary R. Schwartz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Phan Huynh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Wei Tse Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Received 22 November 2009 ,Accepted 10 January 2010.

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Clinical Imaging
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