How reliable is modern breast imaging in differentiating benign from malignant breast lesions in the symptomatic population?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 676-682

  Moss, Hilary A ^a,b   Britton, Peter D ^a   Flower, Christopher D R ^a   Freeman, Alan H ^a   Lomas, David J ^a   Warren, Ruth M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast neoplasms; Breast radiography; Diagnosis; US

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032834224     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9260(99)91090-5     Document Type: Article

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