Invasive ductal carcinoma with fibrotic focus: Mammographic and sonographic findings with histopathologic correlation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 490-494

  Oken, Shara Millman ^a   Mercado, Cecilia L ^b   Memeo, Lorenzo ^a   Hibshoosh, Hanina ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FIBROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 25644432120     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.2.01850490     Document Type: Article

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