Clinical application of intratumoral blood flow study in patients with endometrial carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1881-1886

  Cheng, Wen Fang ^a   Chen, Tzer Ming ^a   Chen, Chi An ^a   Wu, Chih Cheng ^a   Huang, Kuang Ta ^a   Hsieh, Chang Yao ^a   Hsieh, Fon Jou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Endometrial carcinoma; Intratumoral blood flow; Lymph node; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0032525124     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980515)82:10<1881::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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