Evaluation of tissue harmonic imaging for the diagnosis of focal liver lesions

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-187

  Tanaka, Sachiko ^a   Oshikawa, Osamu ^a   Sasaki, Teruko ^a   Ioka, Tatsuya ^a   Tsukuma, Hideaki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver cirrhosis; Liver neoplasm; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

FOCAL LIVER LESIONS; FUNDAMENTAL GREY SCALE IMAGE; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING;

AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0034060377     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00134-9     Document Type: Article

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