New method of dynamic color doppler signal quantification in metastatic lymph nodes compared to direct polarographic measurements of tissue oxygenation

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 957-962

  Scholbach, Thomas ^a   Scholbach, Jakob ^b   Krombach, Gabriele A ^c   Gagel, Bernd ^c   Maneschi, Payam ^d   Di Martino, Ercole ^d  

^a Kinderklinik am Stadtischen K   (Germany)

^b Écl Normale Sup ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color Doppler sonography; Lymph node perfusion; Neck metastases; Signal quantification software; Tumor oxygenation; Tumor perfusion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CALCULATION; CANCER STAGING; CELL FRACTIONATION; COLOR; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEART CYCLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; INFUSION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEEDLE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; POLAROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TISSUE PERFUSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; POLAROGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 17044379060     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.20827     Document Type: Article

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