Sonographic features of breast carcinoma presenting as masses in BRCA gene mutation carriers

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 817-824

  Mesurolle, Benoît ^a,d   Kadoch, Laurence ^a   El Khoury, Mona ^a   Lisbona, André ^b   Dendukuri, Nandini ^a   Foulkes, William D ^c  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

BRCA gene mutation carriers; Breast cancer; Breast imaging reporting and data system categorization; Breast sonography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GENES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUTAGENS; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST SONOGRAPHY; DATA SYSTEM CATEGORIZATION; GENE MUTATION CARRIERS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; ONCOGENE; RADIOLOGIST;

EID: 34249906988     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.6.817     Document Type: Article

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