Echo-enhanced ultrasound with pulse inversion imaging: A new imaging modality for the differentiation of cystic pancreatic tumours

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2205-2208

  Rickes, Steffen ^a   Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a   Malfertheiner, Peter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cystic pancreatic lesions; Differential diagnosis; Echo enhanced sonography

Indexed keywords

SHU 508; SONOVUE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 33646243778     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i14.2205     Document Type: Article

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