Sonographic quantification of ovarian tumor vascularity

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1577-1581

  Wilson, Wendy D ^a   Valet, Amy S ^a   Andreotti, Rochelle F ^a   Green Jarvis, Brenda ^b   Lyshchik, Andrej ^a   Fleischer, Arthur C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color Doppler sonography; Morphologic assessment; Ovarian masses; Quantitative analysis; Vascularity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HISTOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; POWER WEIGHTED PIXEL DENSITY (PWPD); VASCULARITY INDEX (VI);

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847004375     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.12.1577     Document Type: Article

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