Color Doppler assessment of blood flow in endometrial cancer

European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-284

  Sawicki, W ^a,b   Spiewankiewicz B ^a   Stelmachow J ^a   Cendrowski, K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b II Faculty of Medicine   (Poland)

Author keywords

Doppler velocimetry; Endometrial cancer

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; OMENTUM; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 21044449240     PISSN: 03922936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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