Vision 20/20: Mammographic breast density and its clinical applications
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Imperfect correlation of mammographic and clinical breast tissue density.
BACKGROUND Clinicians determine degree of mammographic density based on tissue firmness on breast examination. The study aimed to compare breast density in mammography and clinical breast examination. MATERIALS AND METHODS Six-hundred sixty three women 40 years of age or older were studied. The breast exam density was graded from 1 to 4 by two expert surgeons and the mammographic parenchymal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Physics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0094-2405
DOI: 10.1118/1.4935141