Prevalence and diagnostic significance of fluid-fluid levels in soft-tissue neoplasms

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 769-774

  Alyas, F ^a   Lee, J ^a   Ahmed, M ^a   Connell, D ^a   Saifuddin, A ^a  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; FOLLOW UP; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34250856938     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.12.014     Document Type: Article

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