Mammographic density and inter-observer variability of pathologic evaluation of core biopsies among women with mammographic abnormalities

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Trocchi, Pietro ^a   Ursin, Giske ^b,c,d   Kuss, Oliver ^a   Ruschke, Kathrin ^a   Schmidt Pokrzywniak, Andrea ^a   Holzhausen, Hans Jürgen ^a   Löning, Thomas ^e   Thomssen, Christoph ^a   Böcker, Werner ^f   Kluttig, Alexander ^a   Stang, Andreas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ALBERTINEN KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^f Reference Center for Gynaeco and Mammapathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Breast diseases; Mammographic density; Observer variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 84869888038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-554     Document Type: Article

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