title: The prognostic significance of breast tumour microcalcifications.
abstract: The prognostic significance of breast tumour microcalcifications has shown, so far, contradictory results. We compared two groups of breast cancer patients: in the first group, the patients showed mammographic and histological microcalcifications, whereas the second group did not. The prognostic indices for both groups included the size of the primary tumour, the number of positive axillary nodes, the histological type, the grade, the hormone-receptor status and the menopausal status. An increased number of cases with both oestrogen and progesterone receptor-positive tumours was found in the group with microcalcifications, which is a favorable prognostic sign for these patients. For the remaining prognostic indices there was no difference between the two groups.
authors.affiliation: 3rd Surgical Department, Hellenic Anticancer Institute, Saint-Savas Hospital, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Griniatsos
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Vassilopoulos
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kelessis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Agelatou
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Apostolikas
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen / Q000032:analysis; D011980:Receptors, Progesterone / Q000032:analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D011960:Receptors, Estrogen; D011980:Receptors, Progesterone