RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Breast carcinoma cellularity and its relation to oestrogen receptor content.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 1166
OP 1168
DO 10.1136/jcp.42.11.1166
VO 42
IS 11
A1 D M Parham
A1 P R Baker
A1 A J Robertson
A1 A Vasishta
A1 P G Baker
A1 G Smith
YR 1989
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/42/11/1166.abstract
AB The cellularity of 104 primary breast carcinomata was determined by semiautomated image analysis to allow the relation between cellularity and oestrogen receptor content values to be assessed. The oestrogen receptor content of tumours detected by a steroid binding assay showed no correlation with cellularity, although a possible weak negative correlation was observed between tumour cellularity and oestrogen receptor content detected by enzyme immunoassay. It is concluded that there is no single direct correlation between tumour cellularity and oestrogen receptor content.