Diagnostic challenges in patients with tumors: Case 3. Normal-sized ovarian cancer detected by color doppler ultrasound using a microbubble contrast agent

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3703-3705

  Emoto, Makoto ^a   Fujimitsu, Ritsuko ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Kawarabayashi, Tatsuhiko ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; GALLIUM 67; SHU 508; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CARCINOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; GAS; HISTOLOGY; LETTER; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY; OVARY TUMOR;

CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0141904651     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.01.083     Document Type: Article

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