Prognostic significance of color Doppler findings in head and neck tumors

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1311-1317

  Delorme, Stefan ^a   Dietz, Andreas ^b   Rudat, Volker ^b   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Bahner, Malte L ^a   Van Kaick, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computers as diagnostic aid; Doppler studies; Head and neck cancer; Lymph nodes; Metastases; Prognosis; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY;

COLOR DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; COLOR PIXEL DENSITY (CPD); MEAN COLOR VALUE (MCV);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0030717524     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(97)00153-1     Document Type: Article

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