Internal echo histogram examination has a role in distinguishing malignant tumors from benign masses in the breast

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 151-153

  Kitaoka, Fumio ^a   Sakai, Hidenori ^b   Kuroda, Yutaka ^b   Kurata, Satoru ^b   Nakayasu, Kiyoshi ^b   Hongo, Hiroshi ^b   Iwata, Touru ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yamaguchi Pref Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast mass; Internal echo histogram; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

HISTOGRAM;

ULTRASONIC REFLECTION;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PARAMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0034773356     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(01)00287-X     Document Type: Article

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