Breast lesions: Evaluation with shear wave elastography, with special emphasis on the "stiff rim" sign

Radiology

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-72

  Zhou, JianQiao ^a   Zhan, WeiWei ^a   Chang, Cai ^a,b   Zhang, XiaoXiao ^a   Jia, Yi ^a   Dong, YiJie ^a   Zhou, Chun ^a   Sun, Jing ^c   Grant, Edward G ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shekou Hospital   (China)

^d USC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPH; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; STIFF RIM SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84903717135     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14130818     Document Type: Article

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