Ultrasonic Power Doppler Imaging for Prostatic Cancer: A Preliminary Report

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 277-281

  Okihara, Koji ^a   Kojima, Munekado ^a   Naya, Yoshio ^a   Iida, Akio ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Watanabe, Hiroki ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Cancer; Hypervascular lesion; Power Doppler imaging; Prostate

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0031204972     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.182.277     Document Type: Article

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