Pain during mammography: Impact of breast pathologies and demographic factors

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 180-183

  Gupta, Renu ^a   Nayak, M ^a   Khoursheed, M ^a   Roy, S ^a   Behbehani, A I ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Breast pathologies; Mammography; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0038206815     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070756     Document Type: Article

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