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To make a standard diagnosis, it is important to have a standard lexicon. Although many kinds of expression are possible for the same feature of a breast tumor, a technical term must be a word that is seldom confused with another different concept. Especially, a halo or boundary high echo must be a word that is used to express a malignant sign.
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Yasuda, H. et al. (2005). Margin, Border, and Boundary Zone of Breast Tumor Ultrasonography. In: Ueno, E., Shiina, T., Kubota, M., Sawai, K. (eds) Research and Development in Breast Ultrasound. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-27008-6_9
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