Malignant hepatic hilar tumors: Can ultrasonography be used as an alternative to angiography with CT arterial portography for determination of resectability?

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-45

  Hann, Lucy E ^a   Fong, Yuman ^a   Shriver, Craig D ^a   Botet, Jose F ^a   Brown, Karen T ^a   Klimstra, David S ^a   Blumgart, Leslie H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile ducts, neoplasm; Liver, neoplasms; Portal vein, stenosis; Portography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY;

BITE DUCTS; COLOR DOPPLER TECHNIQUE; LIVERS; MALIGNANT HEPATIC HILAR TUMORS; NEOPLASM; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL DOPPLER TECHNIQUE; STENOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOMA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH;

EID: 0030020044     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.1996.15.1.37     Document Type: Article

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