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A case in which ultrasonography was useful in differentiating between rib fracture due to compression after biopsy and rib metastasis of breast cancer

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Conceptualization, TF; data curation, GO and TN; formal analysis, none; funding acquisition, none; investigation, GO and TN; methodology, TF and MM; project administration, TF; resources, UT; software, none; supervision, KK and UT; validation, TF and KK; visualization, AS; writing, AS; writing–review & editing, FT, KK, and UT

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Sato, A., Fujioka, T., Mori, M. et al. A case in which ultrasonography was useful in differentiating between rib fracture due to compression after biopsy and rib metastasis of breast cancer. J Med Ultrasonics 50, 265–266 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-023-01295-x

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