Preliminary experience with tele-sonography and tele-mammography in Togo

Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging

Volumn 93, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 639-642

  Adambounou, K ^a,b   Farin, F ^a   Boucher, A ^c   Adjenou, K V ^b   Gbeassor, M ^d   N'Dakena, K ^b   Vincent, N ^c   Arbeille, P ^a  

^a SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LOMÉ   (Togo)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOMÉ   (Togo)

Author keywords

3D; Echography; Mammography; Remote medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TELEDIAGNOSIS; TELEMEDICINE; TELERADIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOGO; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY;

HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PILOT PROJECTS; TELEMEDICINE; TOGO; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871877529     PISSN: 22115684     EISSN: 22115684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diii.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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