Ultrasound characteristics of different types of adnexal malignancies

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-48

  Valentin, Lil ^a   Ameye, Lieveke ^b   Testa, Antonia ^c   Lécuru, Fabrice ^d   Bernard, Jean Pierre ^e   Paladini, Dario ^f   Van Huffel, Sabine ^b   Timmerman, Dirk ^g  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^e Centre medical des pyramides   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ovarian neoplasms; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CYST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; STANDARDIZATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS CANCER;

ADNEXAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33745028639     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2005.11.015     Document Type: Article

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