Contrast enhanced harmonic ultrasound for differentiating breast tumors - First results

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-120

  Jung, Ernst Michael ^a,e   Jungius, Karl Peter ^b   Rupp, Nikolaus ^a   Gallegos, María ^c   Ritter, Gunter ^c   Lenhart, Markus ^a   Clevert, Dirk Andre ^a   Kubale, Reinhard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Spitalzentrum Oberwallis   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^d Institute of Radiology Sonography and Nuclear Medicine   (Germany)

^e Passau Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms, US; Ultrasound, contrast media; Ultrasound, harmonic studies; Ultrasound, power Doppler studies

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST LESION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROBUBBLE; MULTIPLE CANCER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 24344480372     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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