Small renal masses: The value of contrast-enhanced colour Doppler imaging

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 579-585

  Pallwein, Leo ^a   Mitterberger, Michael ^a   Aigner, Friedrick ^a   Pinggera, Germar M ^a   Gradl, Johann ^a   Klauser, Andrea ^a   Halpern, Ethan J ^b   Strasser, Hannes ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Doppler studies; Kidney neoplasms; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33846920398     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06674.x     Document Type: Article

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