Complex cystic renal masses: Characterization with contrast-enhanced US

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 158-165

  Ascenti, Giorgio ^a   Mazziotti, Silvio ^a   Zimbaro, Giovanni ^a   Settineri, Nicola ^a   Magno, Carlo ^a   Melloni, Darwin ^a   Caruso, Rosario ^a   Scribano, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CYST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CONTRAST MEDIA; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34147195303     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2431051924     Document Type: Article

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