Multidetector CT with double arterial phase and high-iodine-concentration contrast agent in the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma;TC multidetettore con doppia fase arteriosa e mezzo di contrasto ad elevata concentrazione di iodio nell'identificazione dell'epatocarcinoma

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-191

  Pozzi Mucelli, R M ^a   Como, G ^a   Del Frate, C ^a   Iuri, D ^a   Furlan, A ^a   Al Grhiw, E ^a   Bazzocchi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast material; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Multidetector computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645550175     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-006-0019-2     Document Type: Article

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