Comparison of woman-specific versus breast-specific data for reporting screening mammography performance

Academic Radiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 232-236

  Heinzen, Molly T ^a   Yankaskas, Bonnie C ^a   Kwok, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Positive predictive value; Research methods; Screening mammography; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034435573     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(00)80472-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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