Benign and malignant breast lesions: Efficacy of real time contrast-enhanced ultrasound vs. magnetic resonance imaging

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-62

  Ricci, Paolo ^a,c   Cantisani, V ^a   Ballesio, L ^a   Pagliara, E ^a   Sallusti, E ^a   Drudi, F M ^a   Trippa, F ^a   Calascibetta, F ^a   Erturk, S M ^b   Modesti, M ^a   Passariello, R ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast tumors; MRI; Ultrasound; US contrastagents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ABSCESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DUCT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247226626     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-927226     Document Type: Article

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