Role of ultrasound in the preoperative staging of patients with breast cancer

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1044-1050

  Podkrajsek, Maja ^a   Music, Maja Marolt ^a   Kadivec, Maksimiljan ^a   Zgajnar, Janez ^a   Besic, Nikola ^a   Pogacnik, Ana ^a   Hocevar, Marko ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Lymph node; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AXILLA; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; ROC CURVE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 22844447989     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2545-4     Document Type: Article

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