Mammographically negative breast cancer at the strathfield breast centre

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 134-137

  Chew, Sun Beng ^a   Hughes, Michael ^a   Kennedy, Catherine ^a   Gillett, David ^a,b   Carmalt, Hugh ^a  

^a The Breast Centre Australia   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; False negative rate; Mammogram negative; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0030098126     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1996.tb01140.x     Document Type: Article

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