Diagnostic Performance of Digital versus Film Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening
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- 27 October 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 353 (17), 1773-1783
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa052911
Abstract
Film mammography has limited sensitivity for the detection of breast cancer in women with radiographically dense breasts. We assessed whether the use of digital mammography would avoid some of these limitations.Keywords
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