Hepatocellular carcinoma: Therapeutic experience with percutaneous ethanol injection under real-time contrast-enhanced color Doppler sonography with the contrast agent levovist

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1015-1022

  Shirato, Kazuhito ^a   Morimoto, Manabu ^a   Tomita, Naohiko ^a   Kokawa, Atsushi ^a   Sugimori, Kazuya ^a   Saito, Toshifumi ^a   Numata, Kazushi ^a   Sekihara, Hisahiko ^a   Tanaka, Katsuaki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced color Doppler sonography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Percutaneous ethanol injection; Sonographic contrast agent

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COLOR; ETHANOL; PATIENT TREATMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

SONOGRAPHY;

MEDICINE;

ALCOHOL; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; SHU 508; ZINOSTATIN MALEIC ACID STYRENE COPOLYMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036731993     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2002.21.9.1015     Document Type: Article

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