Clinical outcome assessment in mammography: An audit of 7,506 screening and diagnostic mammography examinations

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 183-187

  Tunçbilek, Işil ^a   Özdemir, Ayşegül ^a   Gültekin, Serap ^a   Oǧur, Törel ^a   Erman, Rabia ^a   Yüce, Cemal ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast; Mammography; Outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL AUDIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EVALUATION; FEMALE; LUNG CARCINOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BENCHMARKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TURKEY;

EID: 38449092270     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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