In vitro B-mode ultrasonographic criteria for diagnosing axillary lymph node metastasis of breast cancer

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 349-356

  Tateishi, Tsutomu ^b   Machi, Junji ^a   Feleppa, Ernest J ^b   Oishi, Robert ^b   Furumoto, Nancy ^b   McCarthy, Laurence J ^b   Yanagihara, Eugene ^b   Uchida, Shinji ^b   Noritomi, Tomoaki ^b   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node, metastasis; B mode ultrasonography; Breast cancer; High frequency ultrasonography; Lymph node, axillary; Metastasis, breast cancer

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE;

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; IN VITRO B MODE ULTRASONOGRAPHY; LYMPH NODE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; B SCAN; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY;

EID: 0032955189     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1999.18.5.349     Document Type: Article

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