Staging investigations in patients with breast cancer: The role of bone scans and liver imaging

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 551-554

  Samant, Rajiv ^a,c   Ganguly, Pradip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032950357     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.5.551     Document Type: Article

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