New models to predict depth of infiltration in endometrial carcinoma based on transvaginal sonography

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 664-671

  De Smet, F ^a,b   De Brabanter, J ^a,c   Van Den Bosch, T ^a   Pochet, N ^a   Amant, F ^a   Van Holsbeke, C ^a   Moerman, P ^a   De Moor, B ^a   Vergote, I ^a   Timmerman, D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Medical Direction   (Belgium)

^c Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Color Doppler imaging; Endometrial carcinoma; Least squares support vector machines; Logistic regression; Staging; Transvaginal sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33745645861     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.2806     Document Type: Article

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