The value of preoperative staging chest computed tomography to detect asymptomatic lung and liver metastasis in patients with primary breast carcinoma

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 637-641

  Kim, Hyeyoung ^a   Han, Wonshik ^a   Moon, Hyeong Gon ^a   Min, Junwon ^a   Ahn, Soo Kyung ^a   Kim, Tae You ^a   Im, Seock Ah ^a   Oh, Do Youn ^a   Han, Sae Won ^a   Chie, Eui Kyu ^a   Ha, Sung Whan ^a   Noh, Dong Young ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Chest CT; Liver metastasis; Lung metastasis; Preoperative staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958701034     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1368-7     Document Type: Article

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