Mammography in combination with breast ultrasonography versus mammography for breast cancer screening in women at average risk

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gartlehner, Gerald ^a,b   Thaler, Kylie ^b   Chapman, Andrea ^b   Kaminski Hartenthaler, Angela ^b   Berzaczy, Dominik ^c   Van Noord, Megan G ^b   Helbich, Thomas H ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE RISK POPULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84886832133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009632.pub2     Document Type: Review

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