Preoperative staging of cervical carcinoma: Phased array coil fast spin- echoversus body coil spin-echo T2-weighted MR imaging

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 707-711

  Yu, Kyle K ^a   Hricak, Hedvig ^a   Subak, Leslee L ^b   Zaloudek, Charles J ^a   Bethan Powell, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031751859     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.171.3.9725301     Document Type: Article

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