Reliability of X-rays and bone scans for the assessment of changes in skeletal metastases from breast cancer

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 615-620

  Shackleton, M ^a   Yuen, K ^a   Little, A F ^a   Schlicht, S ^a   McLachlan, Sue Anne ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone; Breast neoplasm; Observer variation; Radionuclide imaging; X ray

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY;

AGED; BONE AND BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAYS;

EID: 9744277494     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2004.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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