Diffractive ultrasound in the evaluation of solid breast masses: Preliminary results

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 486-493

  Park, Byung Kwan ^a   Moon, Woo Kyung ^b   Cha, Joo Hee ^b   Cho, Nariya ^b   Kim, Sun Mi ^b   Noh, Dong Young ^b   Park, In Ae ^b   Kim, Seung Hyup ^b   Im, Jung Gi ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Experimental studies using US; Technology; Ultrasound (US); US

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTIVE ULTRASOUND; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 20844443840     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000167968.01875.15     Document Type: Article

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