Lymphatic drainage from esophagogastric tract: Feasibility of endoscopic CT lymphography for direct visualization of pathways

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 952-960

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Shimizu, Kensaku ^a   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Tangoku, Akira ^a   Zaki, Mohammed ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a   Oka, Masaaki ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOG; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMED CONSENT; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA;

AGED; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOGS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27744518753     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2373041578     Document Type: Article

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