Can gray-scale and color Doppler sonography differentiate between uterine leiomyosarcoma and leiomyoma?

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 449-457

  Exacoustos, Caterina ^a   Romanini, Maria Elisabetta ^a   Amadio, Annalisa ^a   Amoroso, Concetta ^a   Szabolcs, Beata ^a   Zupi, Errico ^a   Arduini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Leiomyosarcoma; Smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP); Ultrasonography; Uterine leiomyoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MUSCLE TUMOR; MYOMECTOMY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 34848886114     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20386     Document Type: Article

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