CT staging for breast cancer patients with poor prognostic tumours

Breast

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 735-738

  James, J J ^a   McMahon, M A ^a   Tennant, S L ^a   Cornford, E J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; CT; Radiological staging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISTANT METASTASIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869237344     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: 15323080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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