Alternative screening for women with dense breasts: Breast-specific gamma imaging (molecular breast imaging)

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 252-256

  Holbrook, Anna ^a   Newell, Mary S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast specific gamma imaging (BSGI); Molecular breast imaging (MBI)

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERA; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR BREAST IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84928567704     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.13525     Document Type: Review

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