Age as a predictive factor of mammographic breast density in Jamaican women

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 472-476

  Soares, Deanne ^a   Reid, Marvin ^b   James, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Age; Breast density; Ethnicity; Mammography; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST SURGERY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PARITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036597875     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/crad.2001.0873     Document Type: Article

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