As mammography use increases, are some providers omitting clinical breast examination?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 741-744

  Burns, Risa B ^a   Freund, Karen M ^a   Ash, Arlene S ^a   Shwartz, Michael ^b   Antab, Lisa ^a   Hall, Ruth ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN;

EID: 0029918374     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.7.741     Document Type: Article

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