Elastosonography in the diagnosis of the nodular breast lesions: Preliminary report;Elastosonografia nella caratterizzazione delle lesioni nodulari della mammella: Esperienza preliminare

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 69-76

  Giuseppetti, Gian Marco ^a,c   Martegani, Alberto ^b   Di Cioccio, Barbara ^a   Baldassarre, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b VALDUCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast Nodules; Elastosonography; US

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST LESION; BREAST NODULE; BREAST TUMOR; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 26244446849     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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