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Pathology Research International
Volume 2011, Article ID 689521, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/689521
Research Article

Use of Fine-Needle Aspiration in the Evaluation of Breast Lumps

Mulazim Hussain Bukhari,1 Madiha Arshad,1 Shahid Jamal,2 Shahida Niazi,1 Shahid Bashir,3 Irfan M. Bakhshi,1 and Shaharyar1

1Department of Pathology, King Edward Medical University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
2Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
3Salford Royal Hospital Trust NHS, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

Received 10 December 2010; Revised 14 January 2011; Accepted 14 April 2011

Academic Editor: Gary Tse

Copyright © 2011 Mulazim Hussain Bukhari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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