[Echomorphology of breast cancer]
J Teubner1, M Bohrer, G van Kaick
1Institut für klinische Radiologie, Fakultät für Klinische Medizin Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg.
Der Radiologe
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
Breast carcinoma presents with very heterogeneous histopathological pattern. According to the macroscopic growth pattern, we distinguish five different tumor types, each responsible for typical sonographic characteristics: intraductal, circumscribed, stellate, diffuse and intermediate/mixed pattern. The different echographic features of these malignancies will be analysed in relation to histomorphological parameters.
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