Positive predictive value of breast fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in combination with clinical and imaging findings: A series of 2334 subjects with abnormal cytology

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 319-321

  Bulgaresi, P ^a   Cariaggi, P ^a   Ciatto, S ^a   Houssami, N ^a,b  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cytology; Fine needle biopsy; Imaging; Positive predictive value

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PALPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 33745366184     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-005-9126-3     Document Type: Article

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