The role of high resolution pulsed and color Doppler ultrasound in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant lymphadenopathy: Results of multivariate analysis

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2485-2490

  Dragoni, Francesco ^a   Cartoni, Claudio ^a   Pescarmona, Edoardo ^a   Chiarotti, Flavia ^b   Puopolo, Maria ^b   Orsi, Enrico ^a   Pignoloni, Patrizia ^a   De Gregoris, Cinzia ^a   Mandelli, Franco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

High resolution ultrasonography; Long to short axis ratio; Lymph nodes; Pulsed and color Doppler ultrasound; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0033152590     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990601)85:11<2485::AID-CNCR26>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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