Association of breast arterial calcifications detected by mammography and coronary artery calcifications quantified by multislice CT in a population of post-menopausal women;Associazione di calcificazioni arteriose mammarie, valutate con mammografia e calcificazioni arteriose coronariche quantificate con Tomografia Computerizzata multistrato in una popolazione di donne in postmenopausa

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-312

  Pecchi, Annarita ^a   Rossi, Rosario ^a   Coppi, Francesca ^a   Ligabue, Guido ^a   Modena, Maria Grazia ^a   Romagnoli, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast, calcifications; Mammography; Multislice CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BREAST; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0344307390     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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