Breast MRI as an adjunct to mammography: Does it really suffer from low specificity? A retrospective analysis stratified by mammographic BI-RADS classes

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 715-721

  Benndorf, Matthias ^a   Baltzer, Pascal A T ^a   Vag, Tibor ^a   Gajda, Mieczyslaw ^a   Runnebaum, Ingo B ^a   Kaiser, Werner A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast; Comparative studies; Diagnostic accuracy; MRI; Specificity

Indexed keywords

BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MRI; SPECIFICITY;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77955695401     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841851.2010.497164     Document Type: Article

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