"Breast" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
In humans, one of the paired regions in the anterior portion of the THORAX. The breasts consist of the MAMMARY GLANDS, the SKIN, the MUSCLES, the ADIPOSE TISSUE, and the CONNECTIVE TISSUES.
| Descriptor ID |
D001940
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.236
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Breast" by people in this website by year, and whether "Breast" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2003 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2011 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2022 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2023 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Breast" by people in Profiles.
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Dwan D, Konstantopoulos C, Mehta TS, Brook A, Dialani V, Fein-Zachary VJ, Karimova EJ, Lotfi P, Mehta RJ, Phillips J. Contrast-Enhanced Mammography: Does Image Acquisition Time and Projection Order Matter? J Breast Imaging. 2025 Dec 13; 7(6):696-704.
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Reeves KW, Oulhote Y, Grandjean P, Nielsen F. Associations of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with terminal ductal lobular unit involution of the normal breast. Breast Cancer Res. 2025 Aug 18; 27(1):148.
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Tseng HW, Fu Z, Vedantham S. Simultaneous reduction of radiation dose and scatter-to-primary ratio using a truncated detector and advanced algorithms for dedicated cone-beam breast CT. Biomed Phys Eng Express. 2025 Mar 03; 11(2).
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Gregory KJ, Mason H, Casaubon J, Schneider SS. SFRP1 decreases WNT-Mediated M2 macrophage marker expression in breast tissue. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2024 Mar 30; 73(5):86.
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Moravia LP, Mosaddhegi J, Mehta TS, Qureshi MM, Phillips J. Imaging Preferences in Women With a History of Breast Cancer Receiving Contrast-Enhanced Mammography. J Breast Imaging. 2023 11 30; 5(6):685-694.
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Vedantham S, Tseng HW, Fu Z, Chow HS. Dedicated Cone-Beam Breast CT: Reproducibility of Volumetric Glandular Fraction with Advanced Image Reconstruction Methods. Tomography. 2023 11 02; 9(6):2039-2051.
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Vicks E, Mason H, Perez Coulter A, Niakan S, Friedrich A, Cho R, Casaubon J. Increased risk of upstage when combinations of breast lesions of uncertain malignant potential are found on core needle biopsy: The need for surgical excision. Am J Surg. 2024 01; 227:6-12.
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Gomez-Juge C, Scarpelli V, Yellayi D, Cerise J, Weinberger B, Brewer M, Maffei D. Breast Milk Production Variability Among Mothers of Preterm Infants. Breastfeed Med. 2023 08; 18(8):571-578.
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Gong X, Yuan S, Xiang Y, Fan L, Zhou H. Domain knowledge-guided adversarial adaptive fusion of hybrid breast ultrasound data. Comput Biol Med. 2023 09; 164:107256.
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Tannenbaum MF, Mehta TS, Phillips J, Du L, Mehta RJ, Brook A. Impact of imaging nurse navigation on breast interventions: Direct and closed-loop patient communication and documentation. Clin Imaging. 2023 Sep; 101:37-43.