Evaluation of mammographic density patterns: Reproducibility and concordance among scales

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Garrido Estepa, Macarena ^a   Ruiz Perales, Francisco ^b   Miranda, Josefa ^b,c   Ascunce, Nieves ^d,e   González Román, Isabel ^f   Sánchez Contador, Carmen ^g   Santamariña, Carmen ^h   Moreo, Pilar ⁱ   Vidal, Carmen ^j   Peris, Mercé ^j   Moreno, María P ⁱ   Váquez Carrete, Jose A ^h   Collado García, Francisca ^g   Casanova, Francisco ^f   Ederra, María ^d,e   Salas, Dolores ^b,c   Pollán, Marina ^a,e   Abad, Soledad ^a   Alcaraz, Manuela ^a   Aragonés, Nuria ^a   Cabanes, Anna ^a   Corujo, Monserrat ^a   Fernández, Ana Belén ^a   Fernández Navarro, Pablo ^a   García López, Milagros ^a   Guevara, Marcela ^a   Laso Pablos, Soledad ^a   Lope, Virginia ^a   López Abente, Gonzalo ^a   Pedraz, Carmen ^a   Pérez Gómez, Beatriz ^a   Pastor, Roberto ^a   Vidan, Juana ^a   Vioque, Jesús ^a   more..

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b General Directorate Public Health   (Spain)

^c Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^f Castilla Leon Breast Cancer Screening Programme   (Spain)

^g Balearic Islands Breast Cancer Screening Program   (Spain)

^h Regional Authority of Health   (Spain)

ⁱ Health Service of Aragon   (Spain)

^j CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOYD SCALE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEM SCALE; CANCER RISK; CLASSIFICATION; CONCORDANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; TABAR SCALE; WOLFE SCALE;

EID: 77956474380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-485     Document Type: Article

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