Improved characterisation of histologically proven liver tumours by contrast enhanced ultrasonography during the portal venous and specific late phase of SHU 508A

Gut

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 401-405

  Dietrich, C F ^a   Ignee, A ^a   Trojan, J ^b   Fellbaum, C ^c   Schuessler, G ^a  

^a CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 1242317806     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.026260     Document Type: Article

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