Use of microcalcification descriptors in BI-RADS 4th edition to stratify risk of malignancy

Radiology

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 388-395

  Burnside, Elizabeth S ^a   Ochsner, Jennifer E ^a   Fowler, Kathryn J ^b   Fine, Jason P ^c   Salkowski, Lonie R ^a   Rubin, Daniel L ^d   Sisney, Gale A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33846445654     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2422052130     Document Type: Article

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