Soft-tissue masses: Use of a scoring system in differentiation of benign and malignant lesions

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-42

  Mutlu, Hakan ^a,b   Silit, Emir ^a   Pekkafali, Zekai ^a   Basekim, C Cinar ^a   Ozturk, Ersin ^a   Sildiroglu, Onur ^a   Kizilkaya, Esref ^a   Karsli, A Fevzi ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dynamic; MRI; Scoring system; Soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

MALIGNANT LESIONS; MALIGNANT MASSES; SCORING SYSTEMS; SOFT-TISSUE MASSES;

TISSUE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE;

EID: 29244432741     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2005.06.027     Document Type: Article

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