Power Doppler vascularity index for predicting malignancy of adnexal masses

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 508-513

  Marret, H ^a   Sauget, S ^a   Giraudeau, B ^b   Body, G ^a   Tranquart, F ^a  

^a CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Doppler; Ovarian cancer; Ovarian mass; Power Doppler; Quantification; Ultrasound; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; COLOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OVARY CANCER; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; VASCULARIZATION; WAVEFORM;

ADNEXA UTERI; ADNEXAL DISEASES; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 18844462456     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1893     Document Type: Article

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