Carcinoid crisis provoked by mammographic compression of metastatic carcinoid tumour of the breast

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 250-251

  Ozgen, Ali ^a   Demirkazik, F B ^a   Arat, A ^a   Arat, A R ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPRESSION; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; PALPATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CARCINOID SYNDROME; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALIGNANT CARCINOID SYNDROME; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035263808     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/crad.1999.0167     Document Type: Article

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