Multi-detector row CT urography on a 16-row CT scanner in the evaluation of urothelial tumors

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1046-1054

  Tsili, A C ^a,b   Efremidis, S C ^a   Kalef Ezra, J ^a   Giannakis, D ^a   Alamanos, Y ^a   Sofikitis, N ^a   Tsampoulas, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hematuria; Transitional cell carcinoma; Urinary tract

Indexed keywords

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RENOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; URETER STONE; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR; UROGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34248681841     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0383-2     Document Type: Article

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