Characterisation of indeterminate focal breast lesions on grey-scale ultrasound: Role of ultrasound elastography;Caratterizzazione delle lesioni focali mammarie indeterminate all'ecografia in scala di grigi: ruolo della elastosonografia

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1027-1038

  Bartolotta, T V ^a   Ienzi, R ^a   Cirino, A ^a   Genova, C ^a   Ienzi, F ^a   Pitarresi, D ^a   Safina, E ^a   Midiri, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast neoplasms; Ultrasound elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 83655192600     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-011-0648-y     Document Type: Article

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