Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the breast is a well-tolerated procedure used to evaluate palpable breast masses, has a reported mean specificity of 99%, and a reported sensitivity of 70-99%. The false positive rate vanes from 04.4% in most larger series, with a reported false negative rate rangng f
Fuzzy method for pre-diagnosis of breast cancer from the Fine Needle Aspirate analysis
✍ Scribed by Gláucia RMA Sizilio, Cicília RM Leite, Ana MG Guerreiro, Adrião D Dória Neto
- Book ID
- 119901181
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 835 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1475-925X
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