Nipple discharge as a single symptom in elderly female patients
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Nipple discharge as a single symptom in elderly female patients
Materials and methods Dept of General Surgery – Prof. Taffurelli from S. Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, holds in its database about ten thousand records in the breast surgery field going from 1975 until now, among which 966 cases of pathologic nipple discharge of variable nature (mainly serous, serous-bloody and bloody) in women of all ages were selected; of course these were all unilateral...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Geriatrics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1471-2318
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-s1-a21