Hepatic lesion characterization in cirrhosis: Significance of arterial hypervascularity on dual-phase helical CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-130

  Lee, Howard M ^a,b   Lu, David S K ^a   Krasny, Robert M ^a   Busuttil, Ronald ^a   Kadell, Barbara ^a   Lucas, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0030878164     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.169.1.9207511     Document Type: Article

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