Primary Breast Carcinoma: Association of Mammographic Calcifications with Osteopontin Expression

Primary Breast Carcinoma: Association of Mammographic Calcifications with Osteopontin Expression
Xiao Wang, Lan Chao, Guohui Ma, Liansheng Chen, Guangchao Jin, Mei Hua, Huiping Liu, Aimei Ouyang, and Xiulan Zhang
Radiology 2010 254:69-78
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Compared with osteopontin (OPN)-negative breast cancers, OPN-positive tumors were more likely to have calcifications, to be spiculated, to have pleomorphic calcifications, to be a triple-negative phenotype, and to be associated with axillary lymph node metastasis