Angiosonography in suspicious breast lesions with non-diagnostic FNAC: Comparison with Power Doppler US;L'angiosonografia nelle lesioni mammarie sospette con FNAC non diagnostico: Confronto con eco Power Doppler

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-72

  Caumo, F ^a   Carbognin, G ^a   Casarin, A ^a   Pinali, L ^a   Vasori, S ^a   D'Onofrio, M ^a   Mucelli, R Pozzi ^a  

^a Urologia Policlinico GB Rossi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiosonography; Breast focal lesions; Breast, neoplastic lesions; Power Doppler US

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33646580385     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-006-0007-6     Document Type: Article

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