The Effectiveness of MR Imaging in the Assessment of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-276

  Mann, Ritse M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast MR imaging; Invasive lobular carcinoma; Preoperative staging

Indexed keywords

GADOTERIC ACID;

BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77953019467     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2010.02.005     Document Type: Review

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