Color Doppler ultrasound as an objective assessment tool for chemotherapeutic response in advanced breast cancer

Breast Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-51

  Singh, Seema ^a   Pradhan, Satyajit ^a   Shukla, Ram Chandra ^a   Anson, Mumtaz Ahmad ^a   Kumar, Anand ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Advanced breast cancer; Color Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 20844457325     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2325/jbcs.12.45     Document Type: Article

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