Ultrasonic attenuation in fibroadenoma of the breast.
Fifteen patients are described who attended out Breast Screening Programme, and were found to have sclerosed fibroadenomas, the imaging of which raised the possibility of carcinoma. In six of these a reflective zone between a mass lesion and distal acoustic shadowing might have been used to infer the benign diagnosis.
Guyer
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PB
Southampton and Salisbury Breast Screening Unit, Royal South Hants Hospital.
Dewbury
K C
KC
Rubin
C M
CM
Butcher
C
C
Royle
G T
GT
Theaker
J
J
D000232:Adenofibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D012598:Sclerosis; D014463:Ultrasonography