A multicentric study of diagnostic criteria in breast sonography: Statistical pitfalls and ways out of the data jungle;Eine multizentrische Studie zu diagnostischen Kriterien in der Mammasonographie: Statistische Fallstricke und Wege aus dem Datendschungel

Radiologe

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 355-363

  Zuna, I ^a,e   Delorme, S ^a   Huber, S ^b   Danes, J ^c   Teubner, J ^d   Lorenz, A ^a   Van Kaick, G ^a  

^a Forschungsschwerpunkt Radiol D   (Germany)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Klinikum Mannheim

^e DKFZ Heidelberg

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Kappa statistics; Sensitivity; Specificity; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFACTS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0031749171     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001170050365     Document Type: Article

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