The utility of tissue harmonic imaging in the liver: A comparison with conventional gray-scale sonography

Oncology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 767-771

  Kubota, Kei ^a   Hisa, Naofumi ^a   Nishikawa, Tohru ^a   Ohnishi, Takenao ^a   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Shoji ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Liver; Neoplasm; Tissue harmonic imaging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CYSTS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034223253     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.7.4.767     Document Type: Review

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