Measuring the tumor volume of gastric carcinoma by computer image analysis: Clinical significance

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 603-607

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a   Hiki, Yoshiki ^a   Sakakibara, Yuzuru ^a   Kakita, Akira ^a   Kuwao, Sadahito ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034034262     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689910096     Document Type: Article

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