Diffusion-weighted imaging in breast cancer: Relationship between apparent diffusion coefficient and tumour aggressiveness

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1005-1012

  Costantini, M ^a   Belli, P ^a   Rinaldi, P ^a   Bufi, E ^a   Giardina, G ^a   Franceschini, G ^b   Petrone, G ^a   Bonomo, L ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249244465     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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