Evaluation of tissue harmonic imaging for breast tumors and axillary lymph nodes

Oncology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1335-1338

  Kubota, Kei ^a   Hisa, Nobuaki ^a   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Shoji ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast; Neoplasms; Tissue harmonic imaging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND;

ADULT; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0036836076     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.9.6.1335     Document Type: Article

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