The excessive cost of baseline diagnostic imaging in early breast cancer

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Morris, P G ^a   O'Connor, M ^a   O'Rafferty, C ^a   Sheikh, R ^a   Gray, J ^a   McDermott, R ^a   Boyle, T ^a   Kennedy, M J ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VISCERAL METASTASIS; BONE; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECONOMICS; IRELAND; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651092375     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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