Only samples with normal pathological reports were included.
However, the report provided only pathological findings, and the detailed explanation of the cat experiment had already been published in 1965 (Tomita 1965).
Out of the 234 patients tested, 4 have declined further study follow-up or could not be verified as having had an invasive breast cancer when pathological reports were again reviewed, only carcinoma in situ; these were therefore excluded.
One indirect method to investigate data completeness is to measure indicators such as the ratios of and overlap among cases based on clinical and pathological reports and the death certificate only [ 25].
What we did was to review all the pathological reports and we included or defined only those tumors as mucinous or signet-ring carcinomas in which we clearly had the definition according to the pathological report or at least the statement of the amount of mucin pools.
Following surgery, there were remarkably only 2 patients with stage III disease according to the pathological reports.
Pathological reports revealed that white laparotomy was uncommon.
Clinical data presented (age, tumor size, and gender) were obtained from clinical pathological reports.
Clinical information on pathological types was collected through pathological reports.
MR results were compared with pathological reports.
