Visually assessed breast density, breast cancer risk and the importance of the craniocaudal view

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Duffy, Stephen W ^a   Nagtegaal, Iris D ^b   Astley, Susan M ^c   Gillan, Maureen G C ^d   McGee, Magnus A ^e   Boggis, Caroline R M ^f   Wilson, Mary ^f   Beetles, Ursula M ^f   Griffiths, Miriam A ^f   Jain, Anil K ^f   Johnson, Jill ^f   Roberts, Rita ^f   Deans, Heather ^g   Duncan, Karen A ^g   Iyengar, Geeta ^g   Griffiths, Pam M ^c   Warwick, Jane ^a   Cuzick, Jack ^a   Gilbert, Fiona J ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g Northeast Scotland Screening Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 65849405860     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr2123     Document Type: Article

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