Breast cancer in male-to-female transsexuals: use of breast imaging for detection

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 203, Issue 6, 2014, Pages W735-W740

  Maglione, Katharine D ^a   Margolies, Laurie ^a   Jaffer, Shabnam ^b   Szabo, Janet ^a   Schmidt, Hank ^a   Weltz, Christina ^a   Sonnenblick, Emily B ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; DCIS; Ductal carcinoma in situ; Male to female transsexual; Mammography; Silicone injection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; APOCRINE CARCINOMA; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISCHARGE; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; REVIEW; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SKIN BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSGENDER; TRANSSEXUALISM;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84925230600     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.12723     Document Type: Review

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