Negligible advantages and excess costs of routine addition of breast ultrasonography to mammography in dense breasts

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Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 562-566

  Brancato, Beniamino ^a   Bonardi, Rita ^a   Catarzi, Sandra ^a   Iacconi, Chiara ^a   Risso, Gabriella ^a   Taschini, Renzo ^a   Ciatto, Stefano ^a  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mammography; Radiologically dense breast; Screening; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38549111113     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160709300608     Document Type: Article

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