Cystic Breast Masses and the ACRIN 6666 Experience

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 931-987

  Berg, Wendie A ^a,b   Sechtin, Alan G ^b   Marques, Helga ^c   Zhang, Zheng ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins Green Spring ^*  (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins Green Spring   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast cancer; Complex cystic; Cyst; Sonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST ABSCESS; BREAST CYST; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTERED MICROCYST; COMPLEX CYSTIC; COMPLICATED CYST; CRANIOCAUDAL; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GALACTOCELE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACYSTIC MASS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDIOLATERAL OBLIQUE; MIXED CYSTIC AND SOLID LESION; OIL CYST; PARTIALLY CIRCUMSCRIBED PARTIALLY OBSCURED MASS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMPLE CYST; SOLID MASS; THICK INTERNAL SEPTATION; THICK WALLED CYSTIC LESION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST CYST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956901467     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.06.007     Document Type: Review

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