Role of ultrasonography in detecting mammographically occult breast carcinoma in women with dense breasts;Ruolo dell'ecografia mammaria nella diagnosi del carcinoma occulto alla mammografia in donne con seno di elevata densità radiologica

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 440-448

  Corsetti, V ^a   Ferrari, A ^a   Ghirardi, M ^a   Bergonzini, R ^a   Bellarosa, S ^a   Angelini, O ^a   Bani, C ^a   Ciatto, S ^b  

^a Ambulatori Oncologici Raphael   (Italy)

^b CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Dense breast; Diagnosis; Screening; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 33646249159     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-006-0040-5     Document Type: Article

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