Real-time harmonic contrast material-specific US of focal liver lesions

Radiographics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 333-349

  Catalano, Orlando ^a,c   Nunziata, Antonio ^b   Lobianco, Roberto ^a   Siani, Alfredo ^a  

^a S Maria delle Grazie Hospital   (Italy)

^b Diagnostic Imaging   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LYMPHOMA; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELIOSIS HEPATIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 17444380050     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.252045066     Document Type: Article

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