Hepatic angiomyolipoma: Contrast-enhanced pulse inversion US in a case;Angiomiolipoma epatico: Ecografia ad inversione d'impulso con mezzo di contrasto in un caso

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 105, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 514-518

  Bartolotta, Tommaso Vincenzo ^a   Runza, Giuseppe ^a   Minervini, Marida ^b   Midiri, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSACCHARIDES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0042659306     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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