Value of High-Frequency US for Preoperative Assessment of Skin Tumors

Radiographics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1559-1565

  Lassau, Nathalie ^a   Spatz, Alain ^a   Avril, Marie Françoise ^a   Tardivon, Anne ^a   Margulis, Alvaro ^a   Mamelle, Gerard ^a   Vanel, Daniel ^a   Leclere, Jérome ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Melanoma, .32; Skin, neoplasms, .32; Skin, US, .1298

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELANOMA; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEVUS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEVUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0031261499     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.17.6.9397463     Document Type: Article

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