Detection of liver lesions by contrast-enhanced ultrasound - Comparison to intraoperative findings;Kontrastmittelsonographie in der detektion von leberraumforderungen - Vergleich zum intraoperativen befund

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-113

  Konopke, R ^a   Kersting, S ^a   Saeger, H D ^a   Bunk, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Liver lesion; Sonovue ; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 17744384549     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-858095     Document Type: Article

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