Three-dimensional ultrasonography and power Doppler in ovarian cancer screening of asymptomatic peri- and postmenopausal women

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 757-764

  Kurjak, Asim ^a   Prka, Matija ^a   Arenas, José Manuel Bajo ^b   Šparac, Vladimir ^a   Mercé, Luis Tadeo ^c   Ćorušić, Ante ^a   Ivančić Košuta, Mirjana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^c Ruber International Hospital   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLIMACTERIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OVARY CANCER; OVARY TUMOR; POSTMENOPAUSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERIMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 26244455708     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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