The additional diagnostic value of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of breast cancer

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1194-1199

  Flobbe, Karin ^a   Bosch, Anne Marie ^a   Kessels, Alfons G H ^a   Beets, Geerard L ^a   Nelemans, Patricia J ^a   Von Meyenfeldt, Maarten F ^a   Van Engelshoven, Joseph M A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PALPATION; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0038582463     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.10.1194     Document Type: Article

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