Breast magnetic resonance imaging: Initial experience in Kuwait

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-148

  Al Khawari, Hanaa ^a   Kovacs, Agnes ^b   Athyal, Reji ^b   Al Manfouhi, Huda ^b   Fayaz, Mohammed Salah ^c   Madda, John Patrick ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^c KUWAIT CANCER CONTROL CENTER   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast neoplasm; Magnetic resonance imaging; Xeromammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST LESION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KUWAIT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60149112400     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000189813     Document Type: Article

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