Differentiation of benign and malignant breast tumors using Doppler spectral parameters including acceleration time index

Oncology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 945-950

  Mesaki, Kazunari ^a   Hisa, Naofumi ^a   Kubota, Kei ^a   Hisa, Nobuaki ^a   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Shoji ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration time index; Breast cancer; Breast tumor; Doppler ultrasonography; Pulsatility index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREAST PAPILLOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PAPILLOMA, INTRADUCTAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0345181313     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.10.4.945     Document Type: Article

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