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Reproducibility of cytologic atypia in repeat nipple duct lavage

April Johnson‐Maddux, Raheela Ashfaq, Leslie Cler, Elizabeth Z. Naftalis, A. Marilyn Leitch, Susan Hoover, David Euhus

Cancer · 2005 · 32 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

Atypia frequently is diagnosed by NDL, but the reproducibility of repeat lavage is low. Lavage atypia may be physiologic or artifactual rather than pathologic in many instances. Marked atypia occasionally may represent mammographically occult ductal carcinoma in situ.

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