Transvaginal color doppler for predicting pathological response to preoperative chemoradiation in locally advanced cervical carcinoma: A preliminary study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1041-1045

  Alcázar, Juan Luis ^a   Jurado, Matías ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Chemoradiation; Pathological response; Transvaginal color Doppler

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

CHEMOTHERAPY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

TRANSVAGINAL COLOR DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR VASCULAR DENSITY (TVD);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032684558     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00063-0     Document Type: Article

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