Benign breast diseases in breast cancer screening programs in Italy (2000-2001)

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Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 547-549

  Fabbri, Sandra ^a,e   Perfetti, Elisa ^b,d   Govoni, Deanna ^a   Bianchi, Simonetta ^b   Brancato, Beniamino ^c   Paci, Eugenio ^c   Vettorazzi, Marcello ^d   Pellizzola, Massimo ^d   Tessari, Maria ^d   Zangirolami, Antonella ^d   Saccon, Stefania ^d   Tessaro, Leonardo ^d   Lovisatti, Leonardo ^d   Ferro, Antonio ^d   Fedato, Chiara ^d   Naldoni, Carlo ^d   Baraldi, Gian Piero ^d   Canuti, Debora ^d   Desiderio, Franco ^d   Serafini, Monica ^d   Bravetti, Patrizia ^d   Bonsanto, Rosa ^d   Marchesi, Cristina ^d   Mori, Carlo Laberto ^d   Baldazzi, Paola ^d   Collina, Natalina ^d   Salvadori, Piero ^d   Marovelli, Debora ^d   Piperno, Giancarlo ^d   Cristiano, Giuseppe ^d   Piccini, Paola ^d   Zappa, Marco ^d   De Masi, Salvatore ^d   Maffei, Carlo ^d   Scarfantoni, Aurora ^d   Coccioli, Sergio ^d   Giorgi, Daniela ^d   Segnan, Nereo ^d   Giordano, Livia ^d   Ponti, Antonio ^d   Petrella, Marco ^d   more..

^a Fondazione Onlus Attilia Pufferi   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^d GISMa ^*

^e Fondazione ONLUS Attilia Pofferi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benign breast disease; Breast cancer screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CYST; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST PAPILLOMA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLOIDES; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCAR;

EID: 20044390726     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160409000602     Document Type: Article

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