Pre-operative breast MRI: What do women want?

Breast

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 435-436

  Ciatto, Stefano ^a  

^a Centro di Prevenzione Senologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Preoperative staging

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY INTERVENTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 77957151616     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2010.04.010     Document Type: Letter

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