Open AccessCorrelation between Sex Chromatin and Female Breast Tumour in Paraffin Sections, Buccal Smears and Peripheral Blood Films
Author(s) -
Vijay Kumar B,
K Ravneet,
Manjit Singh B,
B Ranjeev,
Kalyan Ghatak,
G Nishit,
Sukumaran Anil,
Richika
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/8289.4117
Subject(s) - fibroadenoma , buccal swab , grading (engineering) , breast carcinoma , chromatin , sex chromatin , pathology , lumpectomy , carcinoma , medicine , biology , breast cancer , mastectomy , cancer , microbiology and biotechnology , dna , ecology , genetics
Sex chromatin is a plano-convex to triangular DNA mass measuring approximately 1μm in size and lying adjacent to the inner side of nuclear membrane in the somatic cells of the females. There is consistent loss in the sex chromatin percentage in the carcinoma cases in comparison to benign lesions and normal individuals.