Clinical experience with elasticity imaging in a community-based breast center

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 297-302

  Destounis, Stamatia ^a   Arieno, Andrea ^a   Morgan, Renee ^a   Murphy, Philip ^a   Seifert, Posy ^a   Somerville, Patricia ^a   Young, Wende ^a  

^a Elizabeth Wende Breast Care LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast biopsy; Breast imaging; Breast sonography; Elastography

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; ELASTICITY; NEEDLES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BREAST BIOPSIES; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST SONOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; ELASTOGRAPHY; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874130979     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2013.32.2.297     Document Type: Review

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