Baseline staging of newly diagnosed breast cancer - Kuwait Cancer Control Center experience

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-24

  Abuzallouf, Sadeq ^a   Motawy, Mohammad ^a   Thotathil, Ziad ^a  

^a KUWAIT CANCER CONTROL CENTER   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Metastases; Staging procedures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KUWAIT; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; REVIEW; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 33845536758     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096135     Document Type: Review

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