Colour Doppler ultrasound patterns and clinical follow-up of incidentally found hypoechoic, vascular tumours of the spleen: Evidence for a benign tumour

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 940, 2006, Pages 319-325

  Gorg C ^a   Gorg K ^a   Bert, T ^a   Barth, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BENIGN TUMOR; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; SPLEEN TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VASCULAR TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33645787771     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/81529894     Document Type: Article

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