Usefulness of digital subtraction imaging with Levovist in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinomas

Oncology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 95-99

  Yamamoto, Kouji ^a   Shiraki, Katsuya ^a   Nakanishi, Shigeo ^a   Fuke, Hiroyuki ^b   Hashimoto, Akira ^b   Shimizu, Atsuya ^b   Nakano, Takeshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAISEIKAI MATSUSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital subtraction imaging; HCC; Levovist

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; POLYSACCHARIDE; SHU 508;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 21644467659     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.13.1.95     Document Type: Article

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