The Great Mimicker: Fat Necrosis of the Breast-Magnetic Resonance Mammography Approach

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 189-197

  Ganau, Sergi ^a   Tortajada, Lidia ^a   Escribano, Fernanda ^a   Andreu, Xavier ^a   Sentís, Melcior ^a  

^a UDIAT CD   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CYST; BREAST FIBROMA; BREAST HAMARTOMA; BREAST NECROSIS; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FAT NECROSIS; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW;

BREAST; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 65649112859     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2009.01.001     Document Type: Review

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