Correlation between enhancement pattern of hepatocellular carcinoma on real-time contrast-enhanced ultrasound and tumour cellular differentiation on histopathology

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 953, 2007, Pages 321-330

  Liu, G J ^a   Xu, H X ^a   Lu, Ming De ^a   Xie, X Y ^a   Xu, Z F ^a   Zheng, Y L ^a   Liang, J Y ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHASE TRANSITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548261808     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/54805002     Document Type: Article

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