Baseline staging tests after a new diagnosis of breast cancer: Further evidence of their limited indications

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 263-266

  Puglisi, Fabio ^a,b   Follador, A ^a   Minisini, A M ^a   Cardellino, G G ^a   Russo, S ^a   Andreetta, C ^a   Di Terlizzi, S ^a   Piga, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baseline staging; Bone scan; Breast cancer; Chest radiography; Liver ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 14644445163     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdi063     Document Type: Article

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