Color Doppler US pulmonary artery vessel signal: A sign for predicting the benign lesions

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 379-388

  Hsu, Wu Huei ^a,b   Yu, Yang Hao ^a,b   Tu, Chih Yen ^a,b   Hsu, Jen Yuan ^b   Chen, Chih Yi ^b   Chen, Chun Lieh ^b,c   Kwan, Po Cheung ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c FENG YUAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doppler; Lung; Neoplasm; Ultrasonography; Vessel

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PULSATILE FLOW; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTERY VESSEL SIGNALS; COLOR DOPPLER ULTRASOUND (US); LUNG CANCER; NEOPLASM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33847018466     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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