Friday, 19 December 2008

Sonographic Surveillance for the Detection of Contralateral Metachronous Breast Cancer in an Asian Population

Sonographic Surveillance for the Detection of Contralateral Metachronous Breast Cancer in an Asian Population
Min Jung Kim, Eun-Kyung Kim, Jin Young Kwak, Byeong-Woo Park, Seung-Il Kim, Joohyuk Sohn, and Ki Keun Oh
AJR 2009;192:221-228

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With a false-negative rate of only 0.06% and a PPV of 41.0% for the biopsy recommendation rate, our results suggest that annual sonography could be a useful adjunctive tool to mammography for the detection of metachronous contralateral cancers

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