False positive findings of mammography will have psychological consequences
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Diagnostic invasiveness and psychosocial consequences of false-positive mammography.
PURPOSE We undertook a study to assess whether women with false-positive mammography have worse psychosocial consequences if managed with a workup that involves a biopsy (invasive group) than if managed with only additional imaging (noninvasive group). METHODS We performed subgroup analysis of a cohort study of 454 women with abnormal screening mammography and 908 matched control women with n...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7040.1227