Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound: Current Status and Future Directions

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 845-861

  Yang, Wei ^a   Dempsey, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOABLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER SURGERY; MASTITIS; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; TERMINOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 34548608792     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2007.06.009     Document Type: Review

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