Multiphasic multidetector-row CT (MDCT) in detection and staging of transitional cell carcinomas of the upper urinary tract

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1244-1252

  Fritz, Gerald A ^a   Schoellnast, Helmut ^a   Deutschmann, Hannes A ^a   Quehenberger, Franz ^b   Tillich, Manfred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Diagnostikum Graz Sued West   (Austria)

Author keywords

Multiphasic multidetector row CT (MDCT); Renal pelvis; Staging; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper urinary tract; Ureter

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY PELVIS CARCINOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOGRAPHY; RENOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER CARCINOMA; URINARY TRACT CARCINOMA; URINARY TRACT SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 33744820325     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-0078-0     Document Type: Review

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