Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: more cores, more scars?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 736-737

  Zagouri, F ^a   Sergentanis, T N ^a   Koulocheri, D ^a   Zografos, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST BIOPSY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; EXCISION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; VACUUM;

EID: 42749086519     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.11.023     Document Type: Letter

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