Assessment of breast cancer tumour size using six different methods

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1180-1187

  Meier Meitinger, Martina ^a   Häberle, Lothar ^a   Fasching, Peter A ^a   Bani, Mayada R ^a   Heusinger, Katharina ^a   Wachter, David ^a   Beckmann, Matthias W ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Schulz Wendtland, Rüdiger ^a   Adamietz, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Elastography; Mammography; Neoplasm staging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959228936     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-2016-z     Document Type: Article

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