Color Doppler flow as an indicator of nodal metastasis in solid breast masses

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 835-841

  Kubek, Kimberly Anne ^a   Chan, Linda ^b   Frazier, Thomas G ^a  

^a Founders' Bank Building   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axilla, nodal metastases; Breast masses; Color Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; HEMODYNAMICS; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

COLOR DOPPLER FLOW; NODAL METASTASIS; SOLID BREAST MASSES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0030561130     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.12.835     Document Type: Article

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